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Securing Your Child Restraint in
Aircraft
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.
Please note that these FAA recommendations
may vary from those applicable to the use of
your child restraint in a motor vehicle.
Installing Child Restraint Rear-facing
in Aircraft
Adjust the child restraint to its
recline position
(page 38), then place it on the aircraft seat
rear-facing
,
as shown above.
IMPORTANT:
Before installing the child restraint, make sure
the
aircraft seat is in a fully upright position.
Aircraft
Seat Belt
ARROW
MUST
BE LEVEL WITH
GROUND WHEN USED REAR-FACING
REAR OF VEHICLE
1
Aircraft
Seat Belt
