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Thanks for the tip.
Wow I'd have thought lipo travel rules would be opposite. Think I'd rather have a lipo with me in the plane and know it's safe than have some baggage handler throw my bags into the cargo hold and risk starting a fire I had no idea or control of. |
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I think I'd rather have the lipos in the checkin luggage than to have some random terrorist short a 4S 5000 with his seatbelt buckle
If I can't bring my shampoo as carry-on, the LiPo is definitely staying out of the cabin! Quote:
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He talks about your new long-range transatlantic FPV flight! Hell, you have to waste yourself too bad when you don't remember!
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400ma 2s/ in a lipo sack. |
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International flights have very different security policies I believe. I'm not sure. Travelling out of the USA they specifically told us that spare "laptop or mobile phone batteries" were not allowed to be carried into the cabin.
They also opened my Zephyr and I suspect they checked to see if the battery had been plugged in. I always thought it might be really cool to have a R/C car or MK ready to run in the package area and you could enable it in flight and drive around, check out the innards of the plane etc. They told me on the phone that if I brought a RC Tx with me on the plane the stewardesses will take away my battery during the flight and return it to me at the end. Pretty sweet service, though. |
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I brought lipo both ways in many (international) airlines and usually it's not a problem.
If you keep it with you you need them protected and unplugged. They might bother you, so be early.. it can take an hour sometimes. (that include stuff like special scan, having them keep your batteries til landing etc etc) If you don't keep it with you (my favorite solution now because waiting 1H sucks), put them protected in a lipo bag (and protect the lipo contacts). Likewise for the radio and video equipment. They're annoying during the security scan more often than not. I take the plane with me every time. Mine is small enough to fit the requirement (split Zephyr), strong enough to survive possible chocks etc (again, Zephyr - it did fall a couple of times while traveling ;p) and usually the pilot asks whats that big bag (the customs and security guards don't care they just scan it through a special scanner to make sure it doesn't emit any radio wave). And when you show them a plane, I have yet to meet a pilot that wouldn't be excited about it (especially when you show the on-board camera I was using a plane in a foam box previously and it's a lot less convenient ps: it always depends on the country, airport, period/time and person in charge, so when one thing works one time don't expect it to work again reliably |
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exactly. your best bet is always to call your airline a few days prior to travel and have the assistant give you her name, write down what she says and that'll be what you need to go by. I contacted 3 different airlines, 3 different policies, 3 different fees. Same departure and destination. In case you have to check in your bag, ask if they handle fragile items (!!!). The airline I flew with didn't, but it was too late by then. So I just bought a couple of fragile stickers at the airport and hoped for the best.
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TRAPPY, you are a Sick person, flying in new york like that after all these S***t that happened there.RESPECT my friend,please don't push the limit too high ,we don't want you to get into trouble as we will miss you .
I think you should change your name to DAREDEVIL..you are such a Fing pilot.VERY nice Video though. BTW next time don't drink alcohol plz but have a soda instead. you throw out so much on the high street there that they are still cleaning. LOL Cheers, Anthony. |
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