Flying isn’t what it used to be. I was piloting the last aircraft I flew in back in 1992. I don’t trust anybody else.
On TSA crap on cruise ship boarding.
Cruise line policy allows folks to have and use walkie talkies.
Yet March 2025, boarding in Tampa, TSA would not allow me to take radios Ive been taking for 15 years on travel.
Out of control govt
Still at large
It seems to me that the airlines have banned lithium batteries from checked bags for some time now. I guess the TSA is formalizing what the airlines have already been doing.
I actually agree with this ban.
It’s only on checked luggage.
You can still have lithium batteries in your carry on. Most battery packs aren’t very big at all.
If you are ever on a jet where a fire starts in the cargo hold, you’ll wish you weren’t. Although the smoke will probably kill you first, it’s basically just a hot enclosed griddle and you are the the steak.
I’ve not heard of any lithium batteries for personal devices ever going off, producing flames in cabin areas.
Lemme know when they ban muslims and DEI employees then I’ll feel a smidge safer.
If your lithium battery catches fire but you have it in your carryon, then you can just open the door and throw it out.
It looks like the article glitched here. The headings are there, but not the items.
-PJ
On another thread there’s a story about 300 EV cars (300 lithium batteries) on a ship that has become an inferno. Guess they could pose a problem on a plane.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4320966/posts
What about my beeper?
Uh, lithium batteries have been prohibited in checked bags for years. I am asked about them every time I check a bag at the airport, and have been for a very long time.
My worst nightmare is that I would get on a commercial airliner. 😐
Very recent. Possibly related...?
How will the fires be stopped inside the passenger compartment?