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This is a first post frm SLF and may be totally in the wrong place. So if it is can a moderator please move it to the correct location.
At the moment I'm SLF but trying to work out how to afford a PPL (or dare I say it a CPL).
However, that has no relation at all to the matter in hand.
This may be the wrong place as it's tech but not airframe tech
I do a lot of diving and have come across wildly different views
on what's acceptable hold wise for diving kit.
Now cylinders empty I can completely understand, knives in the hold of course.
But......
When it comes to torches / lights I've come across some of the strangest rules anywhere.
Apparently it's a legal requirement I carrythem as hand baggage and remove the LAMP from the torch.
Now with old lead acid I could understand it, if it was a complete unit I could understand it. Keeping the head unit seperate I can understand, if it were accidentally switched on it WOULD be a bad thing (They get HOT!
)
However, these days why.....
a) Do I have to remove the lamp from the head unit? With Halogen lamps touch them and unless cleaned with meths they're toast in about 15 min.
b) Can I not keep the battery pack in one bag and the head in another? Why do I still have to remove said lamp from the head?
c) Does it have to go in the hand baggage? Is there a severe safety risk with
an unconnected battery pack?
Any help appreciated as I'm
Feel free to flame and abuse if I'm asking dumb questions, at the same time if anyone has any on the diving theme, ask away in the Jet Blast and I'll do my best to help.
I was alarmed to hear that one carrier (heard from one of their pilots on a MAN-LGW hop whilst he was (positioning?)) that crews flying back from the Red Sea are actually briefing a divert to Greece in case of DCS cases on board. This scares the C*ap out of me and really should make the diving magazines if it's the case.
Thanks in advance for your time.
DaveA
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