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I don't have a Gura Gear, but my F-Stop Loka was a really tight fit on those guys when fully loaded.
For tight planes, order of camera bag-cramming is usually this:
1. Try and jam bag under seat.
2. Try and jam bag into overhead bins, if there's a laptop or jacket or something taking up vertical space, try to remove it.
3. Very kindly inform flight attendant that my bag won't fit in overhead but is filled with very expensive and very fragile gear that cannot be checked. It's helpful if you've already made friends with them and made their lives as easy as possible (Make lots of eye contact, smile, lots of pleases and thank yous and small convos while boarding. Board extremely efficiently and quickly. Help other passengers, etc...).
Usually at that point they'll happily find another place in the cabin to store my bag.
4. If they don't want to play ball or aren't being pleasant then I kindly inform them that they may check my bag if they assume personal responsibility and sign a waiver stating that they will be personally held responsible for the damage of $xx,xxx worth of gear I have in the bag.
I'm pretty sure that this would have absolutely zero chance of holding up in any court, but that's not the point. The point is that it makes things personal for them, shows that I'm serious and not just another schmuck who over-stuffed his carryon with hotel purchases.
I've flown about 2 million miles with my gear on all sorts of planes, and have yet to check a bag.
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