Lipos & flying again

[LipolyGone]

I'm soon to be going to the rchotel & am unsure if things have changed regarding lipos since I last went 2 years aggo? I'm all electric these days flying mainly 30 sized machines that run 6s 5000 lipos. I spoke to Andy at opti power at charmouth regarding taking my opti power with me but would be pig sick if they took them from me at the airport. Last time I carried in my rucksack as hand luggage 2 x 6s 2600 packs for a trex 500 & had zero problems getting them through baggage checking. This time my lipos are slightly bigger in being 5000mah but I'm still only taking two. Should I take the optis or the turnigy's?
I'm also going to be taking my blade 450 X & 4 packs for that split over two suitcases as hold luggage so hope that's going to get through also. Anyone know exactly what the rules are these days?

[Andy from Sandy]

I thought all loose lipos had to be taken in your hand luggage. Also aren't the Optis split packs so you can effectively halve the Watt hour rate to comply with the regs?

[LipolyGone]

The 6s 5000 are split packs but regulations change so often is that still acceptable?

[Andy from Sandy]

I would suggest you contact the airline and ask. There just seems to be a lot of different stories that don't give a conclusive answer for the number and different sizes you want to take.

[Mark_T]

Andy is right, you need to contact the airline or at least check their website as most have specific details there for lipo packs.

The general rule these days though is no lithium packs of any type in checked bags unless they are installed in a device like a laptop or a phone etc. Packing them in your model will not be acceptable :)

The logic behind this is that they can deal with a lithium based fire in the cabin a lot easier than a fire in the hold.

The exact number on size of packs you can take varies somewhat so follow direction from your airline on that point.