Air travel

[ericthered2004]

QUOTE (Chris_PA @ Mar 11 2007, 06:17 PM)

Ditto what JohnS said - key is keeping nib up. I travel a lot - am usually on 3-4 flights weekly - and keep my FPs with me in my computer case. I've even used in flight after the ascent phase. PS - I don't check luggage that often, but have never been stopped by security for my FPs. Note that I have all newer pens - Lamy Safari, Studio, and a VP. One with a cartridge, the others with converters.

Forgetting my own advice I mistakenly took my Pilot Knight on a flight recently and it leaked mightily, even though it was stored upright. On other flights I've done that same with different pens and had no prob at all.

 

I started to wonder, in fact, if the kind of plane and/or altitude of the flight might make a difference, but I really don't know, so I just stick with the dump-cartridge-at-gate method, even though it's painful to throw away good ink.

 

 

 

Regards,

Eric.