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My loadout when I fly is a lot different than when I travel by car. I typically leave my guns and knives at home, or at least have them in my checked baggage. I still like to keep some gear on me though, especially in case I get separated from my bag, which has happened more than once.<\/p>\n
This is the stuff that I typically keep either on my person or in my Mountainsmith pack<\/a> that I use as my usual carry-on bag.<\/p>\n A lot of my loadout consists of tools since I don\u2019t have access to a real tool kit. I like being able to do field repairs or maintenance if needed. My primary tool is a TSA approved Leatherman Style PS<\/a> multitool. It doesn\u2019t have a knife blade, but I can use the wire cutters to at least cut the zip ties off of my checked bags when I get to my destination. It has a bottle opener, too.<\/p>\n While I carry the Griffin Adventure tool<\/a> day to day, I take the big XL model with me when I travel in case I need to do any serious prying or wrenching (it also has a bottle opener).<\/p>\n The other tool I take is the excellent 1×4 Technician’s Pocket Screw Driver<\/a> from CountyComm. Its pen-sized and has two slotted screwdriver tips and two Phillips tips sized for things like glasses screws and small electronics.<\/p>\n For defense purposes I carry a CRKT Williams tactical pen<\/a>. It\u2019s very sturdy and stylish and isn\u2019t so aggressive that it rips up your pockets or is obviously a tactical pen. You can even write with it too!<\/p>\n The Griffin XL is big enough that you can grasp it and use it as an impact weapon or improvised kubaton too.<\/p>\n I always like having a light handy and my travel one is the Streamlight Protac 90<\/a>. It\u2019s compact, bright, and will use either a CR123A battery or a AA so I can use whatever I can find, if needed. Nothing like raiding the hotel TV remote for a battery for your flashlight (I’ve done it). I like that the 90 degree head lets you use the light hands free to by setting it on a flat surface or clipping it to your pack strap.<\/p>\n A carry a big #4 Nite Ize S-Biner<\/a> clipped to my bag too. It\u2019s handy to clip my hat to when I\u2019m not wearing it, or clip another small bag or item bag to my pack so I can keep my hands free.<\/p>\n My business card holder has travelled a lot of miles with me. It\u2019s a custom leather one from JRE Industries with a cool Steam Punk stile latch. It gets lots of favorable comments when I use it. Chicks dig it.<\/p>\n My last item I always have is a small first aid kit. I made this one myself out of an old Victorinox knife tin (an Altoids tin works, too). It\u2019s a snivel kit with various band aids, a small bottle of Ibuprofen, antacids and some antidiarrheal meds, as well as tic tweezers and safety pins that can be used for getting splinters out or lancing blisters.<\/p>\n I sometimes carry other stuff with me as well, but these are the essentials that stay in my travel pack and get transferred to me when I\u2019m flying.<\/p>\n My loadout when I fly is a lot different than when I travel by car. I typically leave my guns and knives at home, or at least have them in my checked baggage. I still like to keep some gear on me though, especially in case I get separated from my bag, which has happened […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[142,137,136,133,95,40,135,134,132,139,138,140,141],"class_list":{"0":"post-421","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pocket-dump","8":"tag-airline-travel-tools","9":"tag-crkt-tactical-pen","10":"tag-crkt-williams-pen","11":"tag-griffin-adventure-tool","12":"tag-griffin-pocket-tool","13":"tag-leatherman-multitool","14":"tag-leatherman-style-ps","15":"tag-mountainsmith-pack","16":"tag-nite-ize-s-biner","17":"tag-streamlight-flashlight","18":"tag-streamlight-protac-90","19":"tag-tsa-compliant-edc-gear","20":"tag-tsa-compliant-tools","21":"entry"},"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.mytacticaledc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210609_195939.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/www.mytacticaledc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210609_195939.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Tim Stetzer","author_link":"https:\/\/www.mytacticaledc.com\/index.php\/author\/tim-stetzer\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.mytacticaledc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210609_195939.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mytacticaledc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mytacticaledc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mytacticaledc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mytacticaledc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mytacticaledc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mytacticaledc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":426,"href":"https:\/\/www.mytacticaledc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions\/426"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mytacticaledc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mytacticaledc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mytacticaledc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mytacticaledc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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