Re: ATM travel scopes since 9-11

[Barry Keeney <barryk@chaoscon.com>]

On Fri, 12 Oct 2001, Joseph O'Neil wrote:

> >Anybody else thought about this?
> 
>          this same problem has popped up on many photo mailign lists as 
> well.  Nobody wants to trust their valuable optics to check-in baggage it 
> seems.  Not just the chance of loosign it, but the way they handle it.

   Well I hate to check anything, because if they lose it they
only have to pay $X for the lost case, no more. 

   I travel every now and then for work and have to carry my laptop.
(couldn't be with access tothe atm mailing list :^) and it's worth
about $3k. If I check it and it gets lost, or stolen they'd give me 
about $200-$300. The crappy clothes I carry are worth more then that.

   I don't have a travel scope (yet), current project is 12.5", but
the cost for one both in my time and matterials is going to be worth
more then a few hundred bucks.

   One more thing, I was watching TV a few days one airline,don't
remember which, wasn't allowing carry on's at all. 

Barry Keeney
Chaos Consulting
email barryk@chaoscon.com

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