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Old 1st Mar 2013, 07:41
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Is that water screened and by whom?
Anything that enters the sterile area at BNE is screened, whether it be goods or people. The goods are all broken down into portions/packages of sufficient size to go through an xray. If they cannot be eg construction materials etc. they are subject to other checks that satisfy the regs.

Screening only applies in a real sense to the Sterile Area. Access to Airside is covered by other regs.
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I think I will wrap my penis in a aluminium condom
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I wouldn't bother, I did that once and my girlfriend didn't think much of it at all.
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Your penis? Or the aluminium condom?
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Old 1st Mar 2013, 23:06
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Both. In the end I tied balloons to it and she was stoked.
Now back on subject before we get it closed down
In Melbourne I have noticed they put the pax through the scanner and the aircrew through the metal detector. I wonder if that is to avoid objections?
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Old 2nd Mar 2013, 16:26
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Dear Mr Traffic.....

Do you really believe in BNE anything that enters the sterile area is scanned ? Perhaps you should get out more. How do you think engineers move around the airport from side to side and bring vehicles from land side to air side. Sorry, you haven't got a clue what your talking about dude.....only staff who choose to enter through the terminal (and yes pilots can enter through the other gates also if they are smart) need to subject themselves to all that self serving b**l****. Go through the gate underneath or around, using your id and your in without scanning of any kind, then walk up the air stairs, and your in the terminal without needing to deal with the security w@nkers.
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Oh .... also ...... why is it that communist Australia seems to be the only country using these gadgets when the rest of the world is free ?
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Old 2nd Mar 2013, 21:36
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It's not a case of "if we're smart". At every airport we could get aboard without going through security no problem but if observed doing this there'd be hell to pay.

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Old 2nd Mar 2013, 23:19
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It is almost for some a deterrent to using Australian security airports at all. The several so-called pat downs my wife has been subjected to in the last
year were in the main invasive, offensive and humiliating. Admittedly she has metal hips and knees, but that does not excuse the worst, a butch mannered hostile and insensitive groping, probing woman, (paid by us to do it), deriving a grim kind of satisfaction in causing the maximum discomfort she could get away with. When seeing my wife's distress during that encounter, I went to take a photograph and was immediately told by one of the officious members of the over-staffed gestapo "No pictures allowed in or near security. Put your camera away please."

By what means can these farcical over the top provisions be scaled down or
modified? How can our legislators be made to see that in Australia at least the ruthless, cunning, skilled and determined criminal mind could outwit the present safeguards, rendering them absurd. But more to the point, that the probability of any such hostile act is remote enough as to be dismissed. We are living with a paranoia that feeds upon itself.
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Old 2nd Mar 2013, 23:51
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Fantome,

An official written complaint will see the video footage, as far as I know in place at ALL security screening points, reviewed pretty promptly. I'm fairly confident you'd be able to get a copy.

I got to see a copy of my alleged belligerent behaviour at a central airport. Nothing came of it because the footage didn't back up the claims of the neanderthals at the screening point.
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Good point Clarrie. Conversely video footage has put paid to claims by precious travellers that the process they were subjected to was humiliating, degrading or in some other way inappropriate.

All well and good refusing on principle, religious, health or other reason but the fact of the matter is and as per the posted signage;

"A person at this screening point is taken, by law, to have consented to undergo a screening procedure (except a frisk search), unless the person refuses to undergo the screening procedure. A person who refuses to undergo a screening procedure will not be allowed through the screening point."

Berore I get jumped on by everyone, I agree that in principle crews should not necessarily be subjected to the same processes. I have been told anecdotally it is done to satisfy public perceptions.

I have asked this before, what is your employer or union doing about taking your concerns to the regulator? I'll tell you in case you're wondering - SFA. If I have got that part of it wrong I am more than happy to stand corrected.
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Old 3rd Mar 2013, 05:09
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On a recent flight to Europe my companion was not allowed to carry a small bottle of water
The next step in this screening, was "follow me" and a full pat down.

While I was waiting for my partner to return, I was having a conversation with one of the other staff. After she returned about 5 minutes later, I was then asked to do a explosive check.

It was a quiet afternoon in security. At least we did not have to wait to board the aircraft. They were waiting for us.
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Old 3rd Mar 2013, 05:40
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I have been told anecdotally it is done to satisfy public perceptions.
Which is the most illogical argument of all time as there is crash axe on every aircraft.........
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Old 3rd Mar 2013, 09:50
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arkmark,

Do you really believe in BNE anything that enters the sterile area is scanned ?
Perhaps a read of page 11 - 12 of this" http://www.bne.com.au/sites/all/file...let_080610.pdf might set you straight. And yes, it does get done. It's probably the same at all the Designated Airports.

Unfortunately it is not I who do not have a clue. Your awareness of the various security zones throughout a major airport is frighteningly lacking. There is a world of difference between them. We're not just talking about gaining access airside, or to a tarmac.

We are talking here about body scanning at BNE. That only applies to access to the Sterile Area (Level 3 Departures) at the International Terminal, while the Sterile Area at the Domestic (Level 2) does not have them.

Go through the gate underneath or around, using your id and your in without scanning of any kind, then walk up the air stairs, and your in the terminal without needing to deal with the security w@nkers
Enter one of the Sterile areas (look it up) without having been screened and, after the area has been evacuated, swept by security, and all staff and passengers/public have been re-screened back in, with commensurate delays to airline ops, you will find yourself having a not so nice chat to the AFP and in all likelihood your access privileges withdrawn for some indeterminate time, if not permanently. You could also face a fine or prosecution if they feel like it.

There's a reason why access to the Sterile Areas is prevented except through highly regulated channels. It's to keep d*ckheads like you out.
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Old 3rd Mar 2013, 10:03
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Traffic,
Well said. Thank god someone knows what they are talking about.

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Except of course all the engineers, caterers, cleaners etc who have access to the sterile area via the aerobridge door...
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Old 3rd Mar 2013, 21:05
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and what's the point in having a sterile boarding area when Jo Bloggs hops in and out of the cargo hold of the aircraft that all the " sterile" folk are travelling on, he sits in there emailing and texting on his mobile phone 4m away from the refueller and all with no screening...... What's the point of having a sterile area?
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Old 4th Mar 2013, 00:47
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The purpose of the sterile area along with CBS is to ensure that all persons and things "departing" on a prescribed aircraft are screened.
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The purpose of the sterile area along with CBS is to ensure that all persons and things "departing" on a prescribed aircraft are screened.
Sheesh, the argument is going in circles. How can this be 'ensured' when people who are not being screened have access to aircraft? The key difference is that the unscreened are not 'visible' to the public and therefore there is an illusion of complete 'security.' Just like the sense of security Joe Public gets from seeing the Captain walking through the scanner because they can't see his cockpit crash axe...

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Old 4th Mar 2013, 02:14
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The purpose of the sterile area along with CBS is to ensure that all persons and things "departing" on a prescribed aircraft are screened.
Ahh I get it. So if Jo Bloggs in catering or Baggage handling or Cleaning is a cleanskin for a group of baddies and wants to leave something on the aircraft then he or she should take it through screening as it is going to be " departing".
Boy I hope they are honest chaps otherwise the billions of dollars we spend on "visible security" has been wasted.
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