Lighting on planes

[Diver_Dave]

OK,
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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[Red Top Comanche]

Its Daft

Been there

in grand Cayman they went through my dive bag with a toothcomb looking for dive lights with batteries in. They said I had to take them all out, even the little ones run by 4 AA batteries.

The xray guys failed to notice the 100w Kowalski recharable in my rucksack but I had the lock on it anyway.

They have a point, my 100w light would catch fire if left on. The problem is they use people with an IQ of 50 to try to stop the issue so pointing out it has a lock doesnt work, they just want the bulb/batteries out.

In our case we diverted her attention by complaining that the people in the next class up were not subject to random security checks and asked if this was standard procedure to have reduced security for people paying more.

I dont understand why they dont make you just carry them where you can see them.

C'est La vie

[Loose rivets]

A while back I posted an item that was made a ‘sticky'. My grandson left one of those yellow 1,000,000 candle power lanterns on, and then put it face down on his dad's bed. The bed caught fire and was a total loss.

Just imagine what it could have done in hold baggage.

[Diver_Dave]

Err... Ok, I may have been unclear.

My grandson left one of those yellow 1,000,000 candle power lanterns on, and then put it face down on his dad's bed. The bed caught fire and was a total loss.
Yep.
I may have not explained myself properly.
I completely understand seperating the head from the battery unit
to stop exactly the above, they do get very very hot in air (fine obviously
underwater )

What I can't understand is why we're asked to actually
remove the lamp itself from the head unit provided
we've split them already.

There's no way the electricity can jump from the battery in
one bag to the head in another (Tesla excepted ).
And I can't understand why if we show this at check in, why they have
to go in the hand baggage if that's done.


Thanks

DaveA