For this flight she'll be 4y10m and probably 33 pounds or so. We have put her in a plane's seat, just playing before takeoff, and if you tighten the seatbelt all the way it does hold her in. What do you think?
What's going on is we have two weddings in NY/CT two weeks apart this spring. She and I will stay up there at my mom's place, or visiting friends and family, for the two weeks between weddings. Nathan is going to have to fly home for work. What makes the most sense (and sounds like the most fun) is to have me drive up alone, and them fly up. I'll be picking them up at the airport, so there is a carseat waiting for her at either end, it's just on the plane that's an issue. Nathan does not want to haul around the Radian, and he's not going to have any other luggage since I'll be driving everything up with me.
If she was one or two or even three I wouldn't even consider it, she would drive with me, but for a nearly five year old, a seasoned traveler? I don't generally like the idea of CARES, and I don't think it's less of a PITA than the Radian to install, but maybe?
Anyway, what do you guys think? Piper is great in the car, we drove from NY home yesterday in a record 9 hours 58 minutes, but she would rather fly, and I love solo road trips (and I hate flying, despite all the traveling I do). Nathan would definitely rather fly. So the logical thing is for her to fly up and back, me drive, and him to fly up in two trips.
I'm tempted to say it's ok, she's not a little baby, and while she's below the recommended 40 pounds, she's also not a little baby, she just happens to weigh nothing. She probably knows just as much as the flight attendants about crash dynamics and safety, so I'm not worried about her bouncing around the plane at all. In fact my biggest worry would be that she'd flip out and have a fit on the plane because she DOESN'T have a seat. Or not want to sit in it again after this.
I don't know. What do you guys think?
Wendy
What's going on is we have two weddings in NY/CT two weeks apart this spring. She and I will stay up there at my mom's place, or visiting friends and family, for the two weeks between weddings. Nathan is going to have to fly home for work. What makes the most sense (and sounds like the most fun) is to have me drive up alone, and them fly up. I'll be picking them up at the airport, so there is a carseat waiting for her at either end, it's just on the plane that's an issue. Nathan does not want to haul around the Radian, and he's not going to have any other luggage since I'll be driving everything up with me.
If she was one or two or even three I wouldn't even consider it, she would drive with me, but for a nearly five year old, a seasoned traveler? I don't generally like the idea of CARES, and I don't think it's less of a PITA than the Radian to install, but maybe?
Anyway, what do you guys think? Piper is great in the car, we drove from NY home yesterday in a record 9 hours 58 minutes, but she would rather fly, and I love solo road trips (and I hate flying, despite all the traveling I do). Nathan would definitely rather fly. So the logical thing is for her to fly up and back, me drive, and him to fly up in two trips.
I'm tempted to say it's ok, she's not a little baby, and while she's below the recommended 40 pounds, she's also not a little baby, she just happens to weigh nothing. She probably knows just as much as the flight attendants about crash dynamics and safety, so I'm not worried about her bouncing around the plane at all. In fact my biggest worry would be that she'd flip out and have a fit on the plane because she DOESN'T have a seat. Or not want to sit in it again after this.
I don't know. What do you guys think?
Wendy