Originally Posted by
robe0341
You are right, the seat does forward face, but is forward facing for 22-40 pounds. At 7 months, I expect my son to be about 15-16 pounds, i.e. well outside the range of the seat.
This doesn't make sense to me.
If he fits in the seat rear facing before that weight, how would he not fit in the same seat forward facing?
Are you reading the
automobile guidelines for when to turn it around and assuming that somehow which direction it faces changes the weight range? The forces a child would be subject to in a car crash are not the same as they would be on an aircraft, i.e. very few planes are rear ended, so aircraft safety concerns are not identical to those for an automobile.
In happy ignorance, we never used my son's car seat rear facing on an aircraft and he made a dozen flights in his convertible (rear or front facing) seat before he was 12 months old.