My first kilted flying experience

[Steve Ashton]

I offer a hint to anyone flying with a traditional type kilt with straps and buckles.

Put all your stuff in your sporran and the sporran through the x ray.

Then, just before you step through the metal detector - twist your kilt on your body 90 degrees. This puts your metal buckles in the front and back. (let them see you do this) Walk through the detector slowly. Metal detectors are set to a certain mass of metal, and by having less mass go through at one time I have been able to pass through metal detectors 9 times out of 10.