A captain in our airline tried it once on a flight to PMI... the dog came out severely undercooled and they had to put him to "eternal sleep"... So it is NOT heated enough to put any AVI in there. The heat from the pax. cabin is simply insufficient.
Well, we ex DanAir's TRIED to tell BA this in 1992 (DA loaded front), but it is their 'procedure' to load AVI in the rear hold on the 737 - or at least was up until 2004 - and of course, we was WRONG 'cos we was 'charter piluts'. Many's the time I've been on a walk-round and stopped to try and comfort the poor frightened animal/animals who were sitting, deafened under the APU. Mind you, I was never aware of arriving with one less soul on board.
