FWIW, I almost always travel with a jacket of some sort, regardless of the weather. On approach to the security post (checkpoint charlie?), I place all removable items in said jacket pockets, load it onto the belt, and casually stroll through the scanner/x-ray/particle beam.
Other than having to remove boots, belt, name tag, asic, I normally pass through without delay, until I am selected for fingerprint scanning, explosive residue testing, illegal substance detection....
By which time all of my fudge factor time is out the window.
It
all happened at YUL enroute to PHL, damned yankees...
