It's the ignorance of some security staff that pisses me off. I took a picture of the crash axe on my cell phone one day - the security staff in transit at BNE didn't know what to make of it when I told them this resided within arms length of my seat. After a while I gave up, and pretended to listen to another lecture on why my ring-binder was so deadly.
Yes, flight crew do have a general rep for being precious about certain things, but on this I don't think we are. I think security staff need to be educated on how easy it is for a pilot to take single handed control of an aircraft, and do whatever the heck they feel like doing with it. It's a simple matter of waiting for someone to go for a leak.
Probibly not worth worrying about, but....
