JD Fenech wrote: > Good thing I try to avoid flying anymore. It's an awful lot of fun being > able to see everything from 5 miles up, but its getting to the point > where you have to strip down for internal cavity searches just to get > near the terminal.
I don't know about that. I flew earlier in August on the day the whole story broke about the 20 guys over in the UK who allegedly were going to mix up liquids to make in flight explosives. Other than not being able to take liquids or gells or perfumes through security [ok, I had to toss a 1/2 bottle of water on the way in], and needing to send your shoes through the scanner, not much was different from the usual routine. I was flying through LAX and the line for gate security was out the door and down to the end of the terminal, but I got through the entire line in < 10 minutes which is probably a record for LAX. Fact of the matter is the biggest visible difference with airport security between now and the good old days is you can't go back into the gate area without a boarding pass and you can't see your loved ones off as conveniently as before... That additionally sucks in MSP because all the restaurants are in the gate area, so if you come out get your baggage after a flight and have to wait for some reason (i.e. wife on the other line: oh you are coming back today?) then you better hope you have change for the vending machine. I'm way past the age where I'd be in favor of totally nude flights "for security purposes." Or at least my personal contribution would tilt this more towards the "bad idea" category. :-) Curt. -- Curtis Olson http://baron.flightgear.org/~curt HumanFIRST Program http://www.humanfirst.umn.edu/ FlightGear Project http://www.flightgear.org Unique text: 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users
