Originally Posted by chris

Countries, according to Garmin, where their inReach satellite communications devices are restricted:
https://support.garmin.com/en-US/?fa...fRAhtToGD4Yrz9

I had the Garmin 60csx GPS situation I describe above at security at Delhi when connecting to an internal flight to Bangalore (From Europe to Delhi was of course no problem. Why would it be? Nowhere else is. Only India) and checking into an international flight Delhi to Istanbul.

In the Bangalore flight situation I explained and explained, showed them the specs from the Garmin website and that every cell phone had navigation capabilities. They relented and let me travel with it (actually 2, I use one and the other is a spare). Took an hour of explaining everything multiple times to the multiple idiots.

On the Istanbul flight there was no way the boss man was budging. My carry on buggage was way over what I was allowed. They called an airline employee who came to the other side of security from check-in and took the MX boots I was wearing, a bag that was in my bike jacket sleeve and the 2 GPSs and checked them in for me. Security didn't care about the volume of hand luggage I was carrying/ wearing. The GPSs were the problem. The GPSs went in the boots and the boots into the bag.

They did arrive at Istanbul along with my main check-in bag. Had that stunt not been possible, they'd have been confiscated at Delhi.

Whatever the Indian rules are is kind of irrelevant. It depends on the inbred knuckle draggers who work at airport security... In the hold bag on plane ok. In cabin on plane not ok.