flying with pedals as carry on luggage?

[Ant]

tomorrow morning i fly to barcelona to play a gig, they've hired us instruments and backline etc so all im taking is a backpack full of dusty pedals and wires etc.

will they think im a terrorist?

[Lenny B]

I did that a couple of weeks ago in and out of Munich - no problems

[JapanAxe]

Just don't pack lumps of marzipan wrapped in clingfilm and you should be fine!

[phil.i.stein]

i took a pedaltrain bag full of goodies (already wired-up) as hand-luggage to Dublin in the summer. (i had my pre-concerns.. )

the guitarist took his Line 6 pod-live thing.

we both passed our stuff through the x-ray machine consecutively.

the (late-fifties-looking) security-guy checking it, looked at me, and said "Old-school, i like that."

Edited December 6, 2013 by phil.i.stein

[eddiehoffmann]

I had my pedal board swabbed and sniffed by a dog at different occasions apart from obviously putting it through the x-ray machine. As long as you didn't have your fingers in anything illegal while packing your pedals, you'll be fine...

[Left Foot]

I took a bag full of pedals to rome and back, no trouble.

[ratman]

I've had no bother taking pedals through airports. Just don't have batteries in them.

[Pbassred]

I had Belfast airport confiscate my drum key once. Ok, my "drum key" was a socket wrench with a 3/8" socket on the end, but still ........ " You can't take tools on the airplane", said the robot.

[tayste_2000]

So did you get white gloved?

[phil.i.stein]

no answer ? must be getting his ring modulated.

[Ian Savage]

[quote name='ratman' timestamp='1386375058' post='2299581']
I've had no bother taking pedals through airports. Just don't have batteries in them.
[/quote]

This, to be on the safe side - I've been asked a few times recently when sending packages through the post whether they had batteries in them, guess they're clamping down on it.

[Sibob]

From what I've heard from Ant, he had no issues at all.

Si