Question I am flying to North Carolina from Chicago what if any rules are there on flying with my pipes and accessories to include tobacco and lighter? Can i carry on or do they have to be checked?
Domestic Flights with Pipe.
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You can carry on or get them checked. Your choice. I like to only travel with closed sealed tins or pouches. No other reason that, this way I will know if they inspected the tin. You will have to buy a lighter when you arrive though.
No idea, but I'd be careful carrying on a tamper. A pretty complex weapon ya know.
Put your tamper in a checked bag to be safe. I have a pipe carry case for 2 pipes and cleaners. I keep my tobacco in a tin and carry my lighter on board. Keep it fueled because they will try to tell you that it is a torch. You will have to show them it is a soft flame. I would expect no trouble.
Just keep your eye on the TSA personnel. There are always a few douches around who will jerk you around for the reason they think that minimum wage employees have the right to bully people.
Flew from Atl to Vegas a few years ago, I didn't think about any of this. I just packed 2 pipes, cleaners, tamp in their pouch, few lighters, and several opened tins. Not a word was said. Guess I got lucky
You are allowed to carry soft flame lighters but not jets. But I'd suggest not bringing a Zippo that you love as I've heard they've been confiscated even though they're allowed on the plane.
You know, it is all going to depend on the idiot behind the table. My luck, I always end up with a moron. Even when the sign right behind them says something is allowed, they are just as likely to take the allowed item away.
I lost a tamper I made with 18k gold, from my grandmothers rings, because an idiot behind the table decided that the tamper was a weapon. This was after riding in an ambulance with my daughter to the children's hospital. I had no where else to put the tamper to get in to see my daughter, so the asshole made me put it in that tube thing.
I lost a tamper I made with 18k gold, from my grandmothers rings, because an idiot behind the table decided that the tamper was a weapon. This was after riding in an ambulance with my daughter to the children's hospital. I had no where else to put the tamper to get in to see my daughter, so the asshole made me put it in that tube thing.
Yes, even though lighters with a “soft” flame are “allowed”, I never take any lighter I care about. I always take just a plain, old Bic…… because on the chance you find a more “robust” confiscater you will not be out anything too valuable.
Absolutely! I'd take one pipe and a couple of ounces in my carryon, with a golf tee as my tamper. The rest can go in checked luggage, though butane may be illegal. (?)
A few years ago, I was going through the Pre-TSA line with two pipes, a Bic lighter, and two 4 oz jars of tobacco in my carry on. Got pulled aside after they x-rayed the bag. They swabbed the outside of the jars. They didn't ask what was in the jars. I asked why the swabbing and got no response. I assume checking if it was pot. They swabbed it and let me through.
No problem on the return flight. It all depends on what mood they are in.
No problem on the return flight. It all depends on what mood they are in.
As long as it's not OSS 6mm pipe gun, I'm pretty sure it's okay.
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I just flew to DFW and back with a roll-up pipe kit. Like others said, the only thing they cared was that my lighter was soft-flame rather than torch.
They were more upset by a pound of fudge in a block. That got swabbed and inspected most thoroughly.
They were more upset by a pound of fudge in a block. That got swabbed and inspected most thoroughly.