it is a big and bulky metal watch
2006-12-17 03:23:09 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Travel ➔ Air Travel
Your watch takes up hardly any thing on ur body. Nearly everyone gets throught he metel decter as the Metel in the watch is different to real metel so the metel detecer does not pick it up!
2006-12-17 21:56:26 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The detectors at airports are much more sensitive in certain zones than others (on purpose) -- they are set to go off at the least bit of metal around your waist and down around your legs. Other areas aren't nearly as sensitive. They're also not perfect, and let all kinds of things through all the time. If you thought you were "secure" because everyone passes through a metal detector, think again -- those things are as much for show as they are useful.
2006-12-17 11:41:47 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Airport metal detectors are much like the metal detectors we use to find missing money or other metal objects on the ground...but unlike those metal detectors, the airport metal detector may have a 'threshold' of sensitivity. It depends on the type of technology being used:
Very low frequency (VLF)
Pulse induction (PI)
Beat-frequency oscillation (BFO)
The website I've attached will offer a much better explanation than I could (and I wasn't a wiz in physical science, either, in highschool).
2006-12-17 11:35:37 · answer #3 · answered by CarinaPapa 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Maybe your watch didn't have the type of metal that the detector was looking for. Bombs, guns etc have certain metals that can set the detector off. Or, maybe it was unplugged :-(
2006-12-17 11:31:26 · answer #4 · answered by born2bfree 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It depends on what sensitivity setting is set on the metal detector.
2006-12-18 00:40:37 · answer #5 · answered by martian1174 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋