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Originally Posted by Scutter01  Not by much, man! Maybe an inch at best!
Those are so cramped, I can't imagine where you'd be able to comfortably carry. MAYBE a SmartCarry, but I'm thinking a holster mounted in your flight bag might make more sense, especially with pre-flight. You won't have to worry about accidental exposure.
BTW: I make no comment on the legality. I believe you're safe, but I just don't know, so I won't address it. |
Yep, that's why I've been looking at offbody carry. I don't really carry a flight bag anymore since my students re normally the ones that have them and two flight bags gets kinda ridiculous. I got a really nice knee board that carries all my pens, a couple sectionals and L Charts, flight computer, and small flashlight. I might be able to fit a NAA .22 mag revolver in there but that's about it
I think a Maxpedtion Thermite or something similar would fit the bill here. Again I don't see a major threat because Ive never heard of a instructional flight being hijacked but there has been a few times that I really had to be firm to get control of the aircraft back from someone off the street who wanted to play too much and the FAA is always preaching to us about watching for possible terrorist because they think rightly that General Aviation is a less secure angle for them to work which does have a historical precedent in the fact that some of the 9/11 hijackers did take flight lessons from guys like me. There is a "background check" now to take less if you are a foreign national.
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Originally Posted by Ri22o Glock 26 with an MTAC.
I am not a very wide/thick guy and I usually wear Large t-shirts. I carry a Glock 26 in an MTAC holster at about 3:30-4 o'clock and it disappears.
I live in Speedway if you want to check mine out sometime. |
That is one on the list that I've been reading about, is there a wait time for it at all? Thanks for the offer, I might take you up on that. If you don't mind PM about where you normally go to shoot around here, I'm not from Speedway originally.
BTW, I'm medium height and weight (and trying to loose some belly to see if AIWB is an option for me)
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Originally Posted by Scutter01 I'd normally second the MTAC (it's the same holster I use, as a matter of fact), but I don't think you understand just how little room there is in a Cessna cockpit. You're literally mashed up against the person sitting next to you. Side carry will be difficult at best. Although, if he's a righty, then as the flight instructor he'll be in the right-hand seat and the holster will be mashed against the aircraft door, so maybe it won't be so bad. |
Exactly! Glad I found somebody here that's been in them, I really trying to find a way for people to understand this. I'm a righty (at least with shooting, right eye dominant, left hand writer, mix of both hands in sports). However I think anything on my 3:00 to 4:00 would be hitting the arm rest/door latch making the gun extremely hard to get to. Really I don't know how I would use the gun in flight if I had to. Id have to pull it up about the yoke and get it in front of my body, maybe something like up by my right side chest with that shoulder rotated forward so I wouldn't shoot myself but still shoot directly across my body or behind me. I wouldn't feel underprotected in the airplane with my 3.9" M16 tanto or the 3.5" spearpoint CRKT and there carson flippers are the easiest one hand opening I've tried on a regular folder. I'm more worried about having access to my gun pre and post flight.
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Originally Posted by Ri22o I stopped reading before I got to that part... |
sorry for the book, but trying to get across the problems I'm having to readers and didn't know a way to give the short version.