Drones

Drone Batteries on a Plane: 12 Rules for LiPo, Wh Limits and Fireproof Bags (2026) 🔋✈️

The twelve rules that decide whether your drone batteries fly: cabin only for spares, the 100 Wh and 160 Wh thresholds, how to calculate watt-hours from mAh, terminal protection, installed batteries, state of charge, what a fireproof LiPo bag does and does not do, swollen cells, in-flight charging bans, and what security actually checks. With Wh figures for common DJI and FPV packs and the small Peli cases that keep batteries separated in the cabin.