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Flight Cases are sturdy boxes or suitcases for the safe transport of equipment and equipment.

  • 5.1 Significant developments with high standard
  • 6.1 IPPC standard ISPM No. 15
  • 6.2 exemption in ISPM No. 15

Dissemination

  • Music, Film-/Video- and photo industry
  • Event Technology (VA ) technique
  • Exhibition Stands
  • Medical
  • Engineering
  • Racing

Type

Flight cases are made of coated plywood with riveted edges of aluminum profiles and steel ball corners. The covers are usually held by several so-called butterfly catches (stable train and rotating mechanism ). Butterflys and folding carrying handles are mounted to protect against damage in shallow bases and not above. Often larger flight cases have permanently mounted reels that facilitate transportation. In general, blue 100 mm swivel castors are used with soft tread. In the event industry, this blue wheels are called. However, there are also stronger more robust roles, such as 125 mm Green Wheels of the same design or heavy-duty rollers with aluminum hubs and hard plastic treads. In general unbraked castors are used, two roles are often in recent years, however, in fully retarded version ( brake locks wheel & steering ) mounted. These roles carry up to 3 tons in some cases and are very resilient thanks to the steel ball bearings. Flight Cases are often optimized for the content to be transported and made ​​to measure. For widely used devices (eg certain mixers, keyboards, (Guitar ) combos, PAR light, moving head lights, plasma, LED and LCD screens, speaker boxes ) are also pre-recorded cases.

Flightcase Similar designs

Lately there are also increasingly more lightweight versions made ​​of plastic or soft cases made ​​from padded fabric.

Another variation is the construction of Cases without aluminum profiles. Although this design is to produce cheaper and easier, since the expensive aluminum parts omitted, however, has decisive disadvantages. To achieve a high stability, plywoods are used at a thickness of 15 mm, which are possibly covered with felt carpet. These have a very high weight. In addition, such a case is not as stable as a real flight case.

Designs

Chest Case

A case with a high floor and flat lid is called Chest Case. Chests often have partitions which can be flexible by insertion into grooves. Also a design as a briefcase has the basic features of a small chest. Chests are available with lift-up ( hinge ) lid or with removable lid.

Hood case

A case with a flat bottom and high cover is called the Hood case. This design is useful in cases when the transportable good would be too heavy or too bulky for the removal of a ( deep ) chest. Thus for example, a transported unit will remain in the flat bottom bowl during use.

Otherwise, trunk and hood are similar in features.

Cabinets ( colloquially usually racks)

Cabinets are usually 19 " racks built. Often it is not known that there are flight cases in cabinet - design not only as a rack. Cabinets, there are also in the form of drawer cabinets or just with shelves. With the great flexibility of the products, there are also combinations of the different sub - types.

Flight Cases are in mobile use for storing and transporting equipment in the rack standardized format usually used. This flight case racks are available with one or two removable covers ( front and rear), which is about allowing for the execution of cables. They are called Single Door or Double Door rack.

Such racks have the advantage that the most screwed- 19 "( see inches) wide devices ( standard size ) must not be packed and unpacked for mobile operation, but can remain in the case.

The height of a rack is measured in rack units ( RU). A height unit corresponds to 1.75 " = 4.45 cm.

Common application is the transport of several pre-wired effect devices in audio engineering in a rack that can be quickly installed and put into operation (eg the so-called side rack, which has its place at the side of the console ).

L- Rack

As a special case could be called the so-called L- or Winkelrack. Here linked pages from Flightcase two or three at a 90 ° angle removed, so you can use the top and front (eg, top mixer, effect units front ).

Trolley Case

In shape to a standard trolley, built only as a stable flight case; the carrying capacity is, however, typically limited.

Production

Flight Cases are predominantly produced by smaller companies. The market is developing rapidly, especially since customers in the industrial sector increasingly interested Cases to transport their products.

Notable developments with high standard

  • 60 cm loading gauge: Cases are often made with an exterior width of 60 cm, as four cases side by side result, the internal width of truck suitcases. However, the height and length of the cases is usually adapted to the case contents. Nevertheless, the advantage is hereby given for the events industry to be able to load faster.
  • 19 " racks: 19" racks for stacking. For the transport of outer cases are usually necessary, which offer increased protection devices. Racks can fit both in chests, as well as in cases with hood damped floors and double-door closets.
  • Chests are also available with flexible partitions.
  • Drawer System: flexible cabinets with rows of holes ( as in furniture ) for interior finishing with shelves, drawers, 19 "rails and their combinations are possible.
  • Pack Case- chests in Pitch leave (suitable for trucking ), piled up in various combinations on ( semi-) EURO pallet format. Only the height of the cases is not designed to a standard grid.

International requirements and import regulations

Since flight cases are often used for air transport and the transport case are thus flown to other countries, this special guidelines must be observed. Within the EU, the import of goods in wooden boxes is unproblematic. In the Export / Import of goods in wooden crates between the Eu and a non-EU country, the wood used shall correspond to the respective guidelines. In this case, it is at the pads around the so-called IPPC standard.

IPPC standard ISPM No. 15

The IPPC standard, specifically the ISPM (International Standard Phytosanitary Measures ) No. 15, regulates the regulations for wood packaging materials. This rule is designed to prevent the import of pests in wood materials and is therefore mainly a phytosanitary inspection, measure around the dissemination of all pests to stop. Within the EU will find these guidelines do not apply or are not absolutely necessary.

Exemption of ISPM No. 15

In the ISPM No. 15, there are also a derogation which particular Blades / materials exempted from these requirements. For the construction of flight cases coming the following, listed there, exceptions in question:

  • Plywood
  • Fibreboard
  • Wooden packaging which were entirely made of wood with a thickness of less than 6 mm.

Plywood, as well as pressboard, are not used in professional Flightcasebau usually because they do not have enough long-term dimensional stability and the carrying case could be forgiven. Nevertheless, these materials are often, due to your low purchase price for DIY ( private use ) used by flight cases. These flight cases can thus be used without problems for transport in a non-EU country.

In professional fields, the transport case are usually made ​​of plywood. Because these veneers are composed of several individual layers of wood, of just 1-2 mm thick, assembled and glued, attacks the listed in 3rd place except here. Transport case, which were thus obtained from a professional flight case manufacturers can thus be used without additional allowances for international transport.

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