High jacking here! Can you elaborate on this? I'm flying on Saturday with a Radian and am not sure I understand this. What is the little recline and how would you be able to tighten the car seat with the airplane seat reclined?
There's a forward facing recline on the seat. I put that down and recline the plane's seat. Then I install the Radian acceptably with the lap belt. Pull the plane's seat back up. Now, when it's ok to recline the seat, you can recline the Radian and between the plane's seat and the little recline the seat will be nicely angled (as much as you can on most plane seats, anyway).
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Wendy