I've read its not necessary to "deep cycle" these types of batteries. Considering the battery life is about 200 charges, why waste one? But someone else might be able to explain why deep cycling might be a good thing. Also, as far as pressing the button to check the charge level goes, you only want to avoid doing that if you stored the battery with a charge level higher than 65%. For example, you store a fully charged battery that is set to autodischarge in 3 days. It will take 3 days for the autodischarge to start, then another 2 or 3 days for the battery to discharge down below 65%. So during those 6 days total you do NOT want to press the power button as that will interrupt the process. However after those 6 days the battery will be below 65% and will not autodischarge again until you recharge it so at that point there's no timer to reset and pressing the power button to check battery level is fine and does nothing but show you the battery level. You do not need to fly at periodically to keep the battery in good shape. As said above, as long as you periodically check the battery level and maintain its charge by partially charging as needed to keep it in the range of the graph, it will not be damaged from non use. If the battery is stored with too low of a charge and left alone too long, the level may drop so low that it will enter hibernation mode and may not come back out of it.