If Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi were alive and advising us I suspect he would advise a course of civil disobedience, where all professional pilots refused to remove from their person, normal tools of trade, such as
- wrist watches
- circular slide rules,
- pocket calculators/PDAs
- footware
- belts
- biros
when subsequently unable to pass through the security check point another crew could be called in, and so it would go. When no pilot could make it to their aircraft without removing normal, unthreatening posessioins, many such as wings mandated by employers, then perhaps some one in authority will take a sane and sensible look at these absolutely stupid and useless new procedures, that fail dismally to add one iota to aviation security!