I have two of the flight cases. I think they are great for
transporting my rig in my own car etc but would be wary of letting a
airline handle it unless it was covered with "FRAGILE ELECTRONICS -
HANDLE WITH CARE" stickers all over it. I have seen how many baggage
handlers treat flight cases - they toss them around as though they
are indestructable. My brother used to tour in the world in many name
acts and has told me stories of how flight cases that looked fine on
the outside were opened to find chaos inside. I have traveled with
video equipment in flight cases and have ALWAYS had them plastered
with stickers. I've watch as luggage is loaded in the plane and all
cases that are hard are tossed around quite a bit. A thing to note is
the Doepfer cases are not as heavy in weight as your typical Anvil
flight case so my be treated less like them. The heavy cases seem to
be tossed around because they are such a pain. Another, and very
contraversal practice I have read about was used by a professional
photographer - he packed a starters pistol in whit his gear and
delared it contained firearms. The baggage thus declared is handled
compleatly differently, inspected differently, and packed and
delivered differently. He claimed he was loosing too much gear in the
inspection process until he started doing this. VERY extreme methods.

-JH

On May 10, 2007, at 7:06 AM, Richard wrote:

> out of interest, would you put in the hold as luggage on an airline
>
> Richard
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Bryan E Cornell
> To: Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 3:46 PM
> Subject: Re: AW: 1 Re: First modular system
>
>
> My suitcase rack seems sturdily constructed and there's not a bit
> of purple fur on it. The modules fit great, the corners are
> reinforced by metal, it's sturdy plywood contruction like racks of
> old, and it's very handy to pack up. I haven't thrown it over a
> cliff or given it to a gorilla to hurl around yet, but it seems
> pretty durable.
>
> Bryan
>
>>>> gwei solo < gweisolo@... > 05/10/07 9:00 AM >>>
>> please look at our comments concerning the SOS
>> report on our website:
>>
>> "The flightcase complained in the review is not the
>> suitcase version of the
>> A-100 but a flightcase used by our UK representative
>> to send the A-100 to
>> the magazine !!!"
>>
>> Please ask customers who own the "original" A-100
>> suitcase or monster case
>> concerning the building quality.
>>
>> Best wishes
>> Dieter Doepfer
>
> right you are dieter,
>
> i did wonder what SOS were talking about as i've
> failed to see any pimped up purple-fur handle action.
> :) any suitcase users out there willing to shed
> further light
>
> thanks
> dave
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