 Poster: A snowHead
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There, this should be a nice safe haven for an argument............
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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I here ryanair are makign people with snowchains sit on the wings flying out of grenoble
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Wow, and I applied for a job with them a couple months ago. A bit relieved I didn't get it.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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| dlawless wrote: |
Wasn't there a story on here last year where ryanair refused to let a guy carry his ski boots as hand luggage so he put them on instead  genius until he was no doubt told it was an evacuation hazard to other passengers. |
I saw a bloke spend an entire flight with his ski boots on, and was still wearing them on the transfer bus to the car park afterwards.
GVA->EMA, Feb 08, BMIBaby.
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In jan i will be wearing the full gear bar the ski boots so i'm on the slopes by 11am.
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My brother in law tried that but they were delayed initially in the lounge, then on the ground, then going round in circles trying to land at Innsbruck, by which time he'd just about died of heat exhaustion and was wringing wet. He even had long johns on, having driven over the Snake Pass in a snowstorm en route to the airport.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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At Grenoble you probably could take your snow chains on to the aircraft but definitely not your helmet or boots!
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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I didn't think you were allowed to fly with ryanair without an avalung?
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It counts as ski kit - so costs £80 to take one wef 1.10.09 
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So if you wear your crampons and carry your ice axes you're OK?
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You know it makes sense.
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Mosha Marc it will be fine, but not if you travel by Eurostar .
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Mosha Marc i wouldn't dream of putting my ice axe in the hold and generally just carry it on. It's never really been a problem. I did however get a few funny looks when i wore my parachute on board during the last flight i took to geneva. 
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Poster: A snowHead
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dlawless, I think that shows a healthy sense of self preservation.
I've added it to my packing list.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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So you are telling me that passengers can get away with carrying ice axes on in their hand luggage, but I risked a disciplinary action that could have led to me losing my job (as an airline pilot) by having 2 spoons of differing sizes and a bottle of bug spray in my flight case? Apparently I could have tried to scoop my own eyes out with the larger spoon and used the bug spray to make a bomb. I've also had a hotel-issue sewing kit taken off me - I could use the needle to try and take control of the aircraft. The deadpan security guard never flickered when I replied that it was a very serious situation indeed if the pilot needed to use a sewing kit to take control of the aircraft, because I am supposed to be in control of it all the time. And the number of pilots I know who are up before the company for 'drinking water violations' (ie accidently taking a bottle of water in their flight case through security - we pass through security multiple times each day,) doesn't even bear mentioning. But Joe Bloggs can have his axe. You learn something new every day!
Back to the thread - I would only put in your hand luggage what you would be happy with crashing down on your head if the overhead lockers failed, eg in turbulence or a very heavy landing. (Many of the passengers who died in the Kegworth crash survived the crash but burned in their seats, as their hands were broken by falling hand luggage on impact.) Wouldn't it be easier to hire chains when you pick the car up? They shouldn't be expensive to hire. As for the helmet, if it fits in your bag I can't see why an airline wouldn't let you take it on.
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Aha! I've fallen for the newcomer's trap!
Yes, we do have an axe. But it's not an equal rights society up there, so it doesn't mean everyone can have one!
BTW I could kill everyone on board with my bare hands - just need to shove that column forwards a bit. No need for axes, bug spray, spoons or even sewing kits. Only I can't say that - I get done for threatening the plane.
So - a prize to anyone who can get THREE spoons of different size through a security gate.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Sorry - double post. Computer going mad!
Last edited by Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do. on Tue 29-09-09 22:12; edited 1 time in total
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The thing with the spoons is this - you are allowed to carry a single teaspoon, according to Heathrow's officious security staff. In my case the problem arose when I had a teaspoon and also an even tinier spoon. This cause a debate as to what constituted a teaspoon, as a teaspoon is theoretically the smallest spoon out there. They were worried that if the definition of the smallest spoon was a teaspoon, then a BIGGER spoon could not be a teaspoon, even if it were teaspoon sized. This is the way the brains of the security staff work.
So - go on. What is the biggest spoon you could blag as a teaspoon? I know the cabin crew have a mahoosive spoon in the galley for the purpose of lifting the great big teabag out of the teapots. You could probably get away with a salt spoon too, at the other end.
PS I do not want this post to be construed as encouraging people to break the law wrt airport security (I say this so if anyone figures out who I am I don't lose my job.) However, airport security is for the most part, a joke. I reckon someone out there probably has managed to get their climbing axe through too!
It's no wonder I need at least one skiing holiday a year after working in an environment like this for the other 51 weeks!
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pandora, don't worry my pal had his 10 mm ring spanner confiscated at Stanstead...
His dad had fixed additional security to their Spanish villa with a locking bar bolted to the door to cover the rubbish yale type lock, but 'cus my pal didn't need luggage, he had the 'key' in his hand luggage. I suppose he could have used the spanner to start dismantling the aircraft a panel at a time.... security wouldn't explain why but were adamant that hand tools of any type were not allowed in the cabin...
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Mate went through about 4 different bag checks when on a field trip in NZ with a pair of scissors in his bag. On the other hand somebody else didn't even get through Heathrow with a butter knife in her bag.
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Sitter, My friend flew back from S Africa with a small cannister of CS gas attatched to her key ring, that had passed unnoticed through checks for 2 internal flights & then out of Jo'burg to Heathrow 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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| pandora wrote: |
| So - go on. What is the biggest spoon you could blag as a teaspoon? |
Sorry - just had to do it
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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pandora, You're just a stirrer....
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Isn't the whole spoon thing covered by a column in Private Eye?
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You know it makes sense.
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alright so i might not wear my salopettes, helmet, snood and gloves but you get the point. 
Granted I'm a Dr of biology but I just wanted to be cheeky 