I've flown numerous times in the last year with my cordless drill. I put the drill itself in my checked bag and carry the battery for it in my carry on. I usually put it in a plastic zip lock bag inside my checked bag. Most of the time, flying out of our smaller airport, they will check out my bag by hand, but I've never had anyone even look twice at it when flying home out of larger airports. Never had any issues with anyone questioning it at all, just our local airport is small and they seem bored and looking for things to do. I've never taken a charger with me, never had that much to do that I'd need to charge my drill while I've been out.
On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 4:39 PM Nate Burke <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm going with a group of High School kids from Church to the Bahamas > this summer to do hurricane relief construction. Has anyone flown with > Drill batteries recently? It looks like the FAA Allows Lithium > batteries that are <=100 Watt Hour in your carry on bag, they are not > allowed in checked baggage. A Dewalt 20v, 5ah battery is 100WH. Has > anyone flown with batteries, do you have to do anything special in > screening or anything? > > From this document > > https://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/ash/ash_programs/hazmat/passenger_info/media/Airline_passengers_and_batteries.pdf > It says that chargers are considered volatile, and must be treated as > batteries, I'm not sure why that would be. According to the infographic > it seems that the battery can be in the checked bag if it's attached to > a tool? That doesn't seem to make any sense. > > Nate > > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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