munitalP
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Here we go, on my soap box again...
Melbourne, I don't use the right hand metal detector, my belt sets it off, the others fine...
Sydney, my TAG sets off the centre metal detector, the others are fine...
Brisbane, all let me through with no issues…
This list could - and I'm sure, will increase over a short period of time.
What is up with the quality and calibration of the metal detectors? If they are built to an Australian standard, my belt and my TAG should either set them all off or set none of them off.
As for the security guards, well here’s another story. One of my employees recently left Sydney domestic for a cig (ick!), however on return, was told the sockets (you know, tools) he had in a back pack, had to be checked luggage. Let me explain the sockets briefly... 3 sockets, each in the 19mm size, brand new. My employee had, only an hour before, checked in, walked through security with the same items without being challenged!
OK, I am sure that if let loose on a jet engine, John would have found nuts and bolts to undo with his 19mm sockets (assuming ground staff had also loaned him a ratchet to use with the sockets and a ladder to reach the jet engine as John's rather short), however, I was mystified as to what the security gorilla expected John to undo whilst traveling at 750kph and at 30,000ft... Maybe someone here will at least have superior aircraft knowledge to me (I actually have very little, you sit in them and they get you to hopefully where you want to be reasonably fast) and inform this "aircraft mechanical design challenged" person (me) what possible threat 3 x 19mm sockets could have...
Airport security is as consistent as the decisions made on field by AFL umpires – none at all! (sorry umps, but between all of you out there, you must have heard the siren)
We as security conscious citizens of this great nation of ours must unite, we must stand strong, we must say loud (well not loud enough to wake the bloke in the seat next to me) – WE WANT CONSISTENT SECURITY AT OUR AIRPORTS!!! Please sir…
Melbourne, I don't use the right hand metal detector, my belt sets it off, the others fine...
Sydney, my TAG sets off the centre metal detector, the others are fine...
Brisbane, all let me through with no issues…
This list could - and I'm sure, will increase over a short period of time.
What is up with the quality and calibration of the metal detectors? If they are built to an Australian standard, my belt and my TAG should either set them all off or set none of them off.
As for the security guards, well here’s another story. One of my employees recently left Sydney domestic for a cig (ick!), however on return, was told the sockets (you know, tools) he had in a back pack, had to be checked luggage. Let me explain the sockets briefly... 3 sockets, each in the 19mm size, brand new. My employee had, only an hour before, checked in, walked through security with the same items without being challenged!
OK, I am sure that if let loose on a jet engine, John would have found nuts and bolts to undo with his 19mm sockets (assuming ground staff had also loaned him a ratchet to use with the sockets and a ladder to reach the jet engine as John's rather short), however, I was mystified as to what the security gorilla expected John to undo whilst traveling at 750kph and at 30,000ft... Maybe someone here will at least have superior aircraft knowledge to me (I actually have very little, you sit in them and they get you to hopefully where you want to be reasonably fast) and inform this "aircraft mechanical design challenged" person (me) what possible threat 3 x 19mm sockets could have...
Airport security is as consistent as the decisions made on field by AFL umpires – none at all! (sorry umps, but between all of you out there, you must have heard the siren)
We as security conscious citizens of this great nation of ours must unite, we must stand strong, we must say loud (well not loud enough to wake the bloke in the seat next to me) – WE WANT CONSISTENT SECURITY AT OUR AIRPORTS!!! Please sir…