Originally Posted by
Truckracer
Regardless of chemistry, in my shop any battery used as a flight pack gets a capacity check at least once a year. As Pamster said, there is really no other way to check the true capacity of a battery. Discharging LiFe batteries to a safe level at a low "C" rate does them no harm.
+1 on that. I would not want to find out the pack is going south while flying. I would much rather find out on the bench!