[pct-l] Re: Esbits on Airplanes

[ron.m.smith at comcast.net (Ron Smith)]

Here is a document published by the Transportation Security Agency, part
of Homeland Security, listing what you can and cannot carry on a plane,
and what you can and cannot check: 

 

http://www.tsa.gov/interweb/assetlibrary/Permitted_Prohibited_10_16_2003
v2.pdf 

 

According to it, you can neither check nor carry on "cooking fuels and
any flammable liquid fuel". That is as specific as they get, but I would
assume that denatured alcohol and possibly Esbits fall under this
restriction.

 

The postal service is more specific on what you can ship and how you
must ship it. They categorize all fuels by their flash point, which is
the temperature at which they can turn to gas and thus ignite. Denatured
alcohol falls into the category of fuels that you can mail by ground,
but not by air. You must label the package accordingly, indicating what
it contains, so that it will be shipped by ground. Gasoline, having a
much lower flash point, cannot be shipped even by ground.

 

-Ron