On a side note: I thought the quote was from "The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!" movie with Leslie Nilsen or a similar absurd comic movie. Then I discovered that the original line is much much older. 

 

Sorry for hijacking the thread 😇

19 hours ago, Davide DB said:

On a side note: I thought the quote was from "The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!" movie with Leslie Nilsen or a similar absurd comic movie. Then I discovered that the original line is much much older. 

 

Sorry for hijacking the thread 😇

 

And this is exactly why I come here, all this water photo thing is totally secondary 🤣

A very entertaining thread indeed. Maybe there should be a fishing vest in the waterpixels store? The logo should be on the INside then …

A Waterpixeler dressed with his 1000 pocket vest caught at the custom and forced to throw away his lens

 

Recent trick I learned, disperse your Li-Ion batteries in all of your carry-ons. Then you can say there are rechargeable batteries inside and it’s illegal to check it. That plus ‘photo equipment’ often gets me through the door. 

3 hours ago, Davide DB said:

A Wetapixeler dressed with his 1000 pocket vest caught at the custom and forced to throw away his lens

 

overweight baggage, overweight baggage, yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man...
 

Edited October 2, 20241 yr by bghazzal

Here is the stuff of nightmares: the infamous post check-in carry-on luggage weight checkpoint for all Air Asia flights at Kuala Lumpur's KLIA2 terminal...


 

Snapped this on the sly last week, thinking of this thread....

After check-in and luggage drop, all KLIA2 passengers have to go through this luggage weight check-point to reach immigration's passport control booth and security.
They've made it even more systematic now, with a dedicated lane for people with luggage (read, rollers and the like) and those with "none" .
Rollers get weighed, but a light-looking backpack usually gets you into the "no luggage" lane.

I've resorted to the pocket vest strategy to get my roller under 7kg a few times in the past there, emptying the heavy stuff in the pockets before going through, and then replacing everything back into the roller after the weight check...
Scary? They make it easy 😁

That said, the great thing about Air Asia is that it's very easy to add check-in luggage at a reasonable price, which helps.

 

 

Edited October 4, 2024Oct 4 by bghazzal

4 hours ago, bghazzal said:

Here is the stuff of nightmares: the infamous post check-in carry-on luggage weight checkpoint for all Air Asia flights at Kuala Lumpur's KLIA2 terminal...


 

Snapped this on the sly last week, thinking of this thread....

After check-in and luggage drop, all KLIA2 passengers have to go through this luggage weight check-point to reach immigration's passport control booth and security.
They've made it even more systematic now, with a dedicated lane for people with luggage (read, rollers and the like) and those with "none" .
Rollers get weighed, but a light-looking backpack usually gets you into the "no luggage" lane.

I've resorted to the pocket vest strategy to get my roller under 7kg a few times in the past there, emptying the heavy stuff in the pockets before going through, and then replacing everything back into the roller after the weight check...
Scary? They make it easy 😁

That said, the great thing about Air Asia is that it's very easy to add check-in luggage at a reasonable price, which helps.

 

 

 

Two Waterpixelers trying to get their rollers under 7kgs at the infamous AirAsia post check-in carry-on luggage weight checkpoint.

You said it man : Nobody f***s with the AirAsius !

 

I know it's been a long time since the last advice, but I have another one. I have flight this way with Qatar, Emirates, Vueling and Binter in several trips.Never had an issue since I started to do it. I mount my Aquatica for SLR housing with the 4" dome port, I put inside the camera and the 8-15 fisheye lens. I mount an arm with two clams to use as a handle and an strap to hang it from my shoulder. That is my hand bag 😁

In the cabin troley, cables, macro port, strobes, laptop, chargers, etc. Diving equipment with the checked baggage in a rigid old samsonite suitcase with no stickers.

My dive partner does the same but he adds the strobes with no arms mounted in the housing hanging from the shoulders 😂

I’m now confronting the same issues, as my current location means every trip starts with a flight on an ATR-42 with a strict 7 kg limit for the carryon bag. My usual camera backpack (Lowepro RLX 450) weighs 15 kg when loaded. Now I put the camera in the housing, and it goes into a light commuter style backpack along with a port, two strobes, torch, and wrist computer and transmitter. Everything is lightly wrapped but honestly pretty vulnerable if dropped, so it never leaves my sight. Then I have a briefcase style laptop bag into which goes my personal electronics and all the batteries. Everything else goes into a motley collection of smaller padded bags in the checked equipment duffle. The backpack weighs 6.9 kg and the briefcase has never been weighed. It helps very much that I am a m4/3 user!