Rear-facing
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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) recommends that
you secure your child for air travel in an appropriate child
restraint based on your child’s weight and size. Turbulence
can happen with little or no warning. When turbulence
occurs,
the safest place for your child is in a properly
installed child restraint, not in an adult’s lap or on
the aircraft seat with its seat belt
. Keeping your child
in a child restraint during the flight will help ensure your
family arrives safely at your destination.
The FAA recommends that a child weighing:*
• more than 18 kg (40 lbs) use an aircraft seat belt;
• less than 9 kg (20 lbs) use a rear-facing child restraint;
and
• from 9 to 18 kg (20 to 40 lbs) use a forward-facing child
restraint. This restraint
CANNOT
be used in
booster
mode
in aircraft.
* Please note that these FAA recommendations may
vary from those applicable to the use of your child
restraint in a motor vehicle.
Unbuckle the aircraft
seat belts and lay over
the armrests, as shown.
Adjust the child restraint
to its
Recline Position
1,2 or 3
(p.
58
), then
place it on the aircraft
seat
rear-facing
.
IMPORTANT:
Before installing the child restraint, make
sure the
aircraft seat is in a fully upright position
.
Pull the seat pad off
the front of the child
restraint. Route the
aircraft seat belt through
the rear-facing belt path
opening on one side and
continue through the
belt path opening on
the opposite side of the
child restraint, as shown
above.
4
5
3
2
1
FORW
ARD-F
ACING
REAR-F
ACING
4
5
1 2
3
Seat belt
Aircraft seat
1.
2.
IMPORTANT:
Make sure
the aircraft seat belt is
in front of the crotch
strap
, as shown.
Seat pad
Crotch
Strap
Aircraft
belt
Installing Child Restraint
Rear-facing in Aircraft (cont.)
Installing Child Restraint
Rear-facing in Aircraft
4
5
1 2
3
Fasten the aircraft seat
belt.
3.
Aircraft
belt
The aircraft seat belt must be as tight as possible. Route
the excess seat belt strap back through the rear-facing
belt path opening, as shown above. Using your full
weight, push the child restraint firmly onto the aircraft
seat while pulling on the excess seat belt strap to
tighten.
Check your work.
Reconnect the seat pad to the front
of the child restraint. Try to move the child restraint in all
directions. If you can move the restraint more than
2.5 cm (1 in.) side to side or front to back at the
rear-facing belt path, the aircraft seat belt is not tight
enough, and you
MUST
install again until the seat belt
is tight.
4.
Excess
belt
CLICK!
