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Thank You Pat, Very well put, I understand fully now as to the ways. I also thought there was a full fire suppression system in checked baggage areas underneath, now I know.DO NOT place a battery in the H and send it to checked baggage! Ever!!
The reason for prohibiting lipos in checked batteries is because they can fail and explode or catch fire. There is no fire suppression in checked baggage that can deal with the heat from a lipo fire. Once they go off they can bring the plane down, which is exactly what happened to a 747 departing Dubai some years ago. It was a freighter so only had a flight crew but they all died in the crash. A lipo fire in carry on baggage can be dealt with and suppressed. The flight crews have become pretty sensitive to lipo fires in flight as they have experienced several of them, one of which was in an Inspire in Business Class carry on. They X-ray all baggage and if your battery is seen your H will not make the flight. You could be called away from the boarding area to take care of the battery situation and end up missing your flight entirely.
Your desire to ship an extra battery by leaving it in the H could well end up causing the death of everyone aboard the aircraft, including you. Leaving a battery in an aircraft is one of the best ways I know of to induce a battery failure.
This is another excellent point your mentioning Pat, can you go a little deeper into how they make there own oxygen, this is very interesting. I am sharing this picture as to how I charge my batteries for the indoor RC rally and truck races. It is mandatory that we use these bags when charging between races.I didn't intend to lean on ya real hard but the question of air transporting batteries comes up often, as does your proposed solution by leaving one in the aircraft. Thanks for understanding. What fire suppression they have just can't effectively deal with a lipo fire since they make their own oxygen when they combust.