Airline Travel- newbie question

No there isnt. The main problem is TSA not placing the IPODS back into your bag or the people leaving IPODS on the airplane. Be sure to take it with you.

No there's no harm in allowing your iPod to pass through the xray baggage scanner. Trust me, i'm air crew and mine goes through all the time.

That being said, the lovely people at the TSA may ask to have a look at it as a random check.

Message was edited by: rowanm20

I know that the x ray machine won't damage my ipod Classic but am wondering about the tests that security staff sometimes do on electronic items. A few years ago, going through Stansted, security did what we think was a random check on a G3 ibook. The test involved the man wiping a cloth over the ibook which was testing for explosives. We then had to turn the ibook on and let it power up and then shut it down. I did ask if there was any chance that we could lose anything on it and was told no. I'm thinking that the hardware in ipods might be more sensitive and so am asking if there's ANY chance that the same or similar test/s that were done on our ibook could do anything to my ipod classic. We're going to Portugal in a few weeks going through Dublin on way out and returning from Faro.