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Posted by calamity on January 31, 2008 at 8:30:10 pm EST
In reply to Osprey Atmos 65 posted by Chipper on January 30, 2008 at 1:43:46 pm EST

I made an error in my last post. I meant 50 liter packs are too large, probably much too large, for overhead bins in airlines; that's 3000 cubic inches -- not 5000 cubic inches as I mistakenly wrote.

A 6500 cubic inch pack is entirely out of the question as a carry-on, if that's your question. For that matter, so is a 5000 cubic inch pack.

I'd say anything more than a daypack is too much, but I'm a fanatic and invariably restrict myself to a waistpack for the sake of efficient boarding.

My personal method for air travel, born of utterly pitiful inexperience, is to pack a pack, of whatever size, empty and inside a duffle bag, which I check rather than checking the thing itself as a piece of luggage. If nothing else, the pack straps seem vulnerable on conveyer belts.

Other reasons have to do with packing aggrievation and protecting equipment.

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