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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 - 18 kg (20 - 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.
IMPORTANT:
Before installing the child restraint,
make
sure the aircraft seat is in a fully upright position
.
1. Unbuckle the aircraft seat
belts and lay over the
armrests, as shown. Place
the child restraint on the
aircraft seat
rear-facing.
Adjust the restraint
so the level line is
parallel to the ground
(pg. 33).
2. 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.
IMPORTANT:
Make
sure the aircraft seat
belt is
in front of the
crotch buckle
, as shown.
DO NOT
use the lock-off when installing in aircraft.
Seat belt
Aircraft seat
Seat pad
Crotch
buckle
Aircraft
belt
Installing Child Restraint Rear-
facing in Aircraft
