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CARES Child Aviation Restraint System  | 
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| Brand: CARES
Category: Baby Product
List Price: $74.99
Buy New: $66.99
You Save: $8.00 (11%)
New (9) from $66.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 85
Age: 1 - 4 years
Maximum Weight Recommendation (lbs): 44
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 9 x 2 x 6
MPN: CARES
Model: 4102533
UPC: 094922875709
EAN: 0094922875709
ASIN: B0012E4FV8
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Safety harness designed specifically for aviation travel | | • | Compact - fits into 6" stuff sack - weighs just 1 pound | | • | Easy to install takes less than 1 minute | | • | Adjusts to fit almost every size airplane seat | | • | Designed for children 1 year and older weighing 22-44 pounds and up to 40" tall |
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Product Description
CARES Kids Fly Safe aviation restraint is designed specifically for aviation use for children age 1 and older who weigh between 22 and 44 pounds. These youngsters are old enough to be in their own seats, but are too small for the seat belt alone to protect them. Their bodies cannot withstand the jolts that are common in routine transportation, much less emergency situations, and they flail forward or slide beneath the seat belt if they are not held securely in place.Each year more and more young children fly. But until CARES Kids Fly Safe aviation restraint came along, what was missing was a convenient, hassle-free way to keep young flyers safe. Heres what makes CARES such an invaluable travel solution:CARES Kids Fly Safe aviation restraint is the first and only aviation Child Safety Device to be certified by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) as an alternative to a car seat. CARES Kids Fly Safe aviation restraint is an elegantly designed belt-and-buckle device that works in conjunction with the regular airplane seat belt and provides young travelers the same level of safety as a car seat. CARES Kids Fly Safe aviation restraint weighs just one pound and fits into a 6" stuff sack! It is easily portable, simple to install, adjustable to nearly every size airplane seat, and usable on any seat in the airplane, except in the emergency exit rows. Need your car seat on the other end of the trip? Just check it through as luggage and carry CARES Kids Fly Safe aviation restraint on board in your pocket! CARES is manufactured exclusively by AmSafe Aviation, the foremost manufacturer of aviation seatbelts and pilot restraints in the world. (Turn over your airplane seat belt buckle. Chances are it says AmSafe.) CARES is made of the same industrial-strength webbing as your own seat belt and is engineered to the highest aviation-safety standards.INCLUDES: Restraint, instruction card, instruction video on DVD, and travel bag.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 5 more reviews...
 Great idea! September 5, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
We purchased this item for a vacation with our 14 month old son and didn't want to lug our huge car seat since we hadn't bought him a seat on the plane. The CARES system was so small and compact that it fit easily into our carry on and since there was an extra seat available we just strapped him in and were ready to go! A great, light weight option for traveling parents and kids!
 CARES for Safety July 27, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
When flying with my children I am always emotionally conflicted about how to keep them safe (being a mother comes with a lot of guilt...). On the one hand, it is physically impossible for me to carry a child, carry on baggage, and a car seat through an airport. Conversely, I find myself wishing I had a safe way to restrain my child when the airplane experiences scary, jolting turbulence. Shouldn't children aged 1-4 be as safe on an airplane as they are in a car?
I was relieved when I found a solution that is both easy to carry AND extremely safe.
CARES is a child aviation restraint that slides around the seat back and attaches to the lap belt to give young children the much-needed sternum strap that traditional car seats provide.
The CARES child flight safety device is the only FAA certified child restraint that is equal to the safety level of a car seat. CARES is manufactured by AmSafe, the leading maker of airplane seat belts and pilot restraints.
CARES is the ONLY alternative to a car seat that is permitted on planes.
CARES is designed for children between 22 and 44 lbs who sit in their own seat.
One thing I love about CARES is that it weighs only 1 lb and folds up very very small:
It comes with it's own 6" storage sack and an instructional DVD (although it only takes one minute to install the CARES harness on the plane seat, watching the instructional DVD might boost your confidence).
CARES has won numerous awards, including the Good Housekeeping 2008 Good Buy Award, the National Parenting Center 2007 Seal of Approval, and several others!
My preschooler thinks CARES is "cool", like a real pilot would wear! It actually did "remind" him to stay in his seat (he is "very active")!
Toddler =(, but highly recommended July 10, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I decided to purchase this for my 2.5 yr old son for our trip to the SF-Seattle-Vancouver so that we didn't have to carry his carseat onto the plane. It was easy to install and buckling him into his seat was a breeze. The flight [DFW-SF] was about 3 hours and half-way through it, he was complaining that the strap that went across the back of his head was bothering him. I adjusted it but I figured he was only trying to get out of it.
Overall, it's a great product and although he didn't enjoy being strapped in it [like any toddler would], we used it for his safety and convenience.
 Airlines no CARES June 13, 2008
11 out of 13 found this review helpful
This is a transcript from Customer Service of Lufthansa Airline about if CARES can be use on Lufthansa Airlines and most likely also on other European airlines:
Thank you for your patience and I have received a reply from Frankfurt headquarters. They have confirmed that the CARES system is currently not allowed on board any Lufthansa aircrafts. This includes both Transatlantic and European flights.
Although Frankfurt is aware of this restraint system and its benefits, unfortunately, there is no indication of any future clearance for its use. Again, thank you for your patience and I would have rather given you a more positive response
Sincerely,
Linda Rullo
Lufthansa Customer Relations
North America
 Useful for shorter flights June 3, 2008
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
We just bought the CARES restraint for our flight from Washington to Texas last month. We have the heaviest car seat ever made, I think, and I just wanted to check it, not struggle with it on the plane. The restraint did keep him in his seat, but I had two complaints.
First, I was disappointed that there was no strap between his legs to keep him from sliding down in his seat. I can see how one mother was concerned about strangulation, though I suspect if left to his own devices, my 2-year-old might have just finally managed to wriggle out of it altogether. In our case, I was frequently boosting him back up in his seat and had to keep a hand on him to keep him from wriggling back down during his fussiest moments. Now that I'm familiar with the problem, I may be able to rig a solution before we use it again.
My second concern was that the strap does go around the back of the child's seat, which means either you have to open the tray of the passenger behind you to install the strap, then close the tray back up, or in some cases (according to the instructions,) install the strap around the tray of the passenger behind you, rendering their tray useless and making it impossible to use the strap during the flight when that passenger would need their tray. Since I have this innate fear of annoying people, that would have really bothered me, but fortunately, since we are a family of five, we took up two rows anyway and I was able to make sure the baby was in front of one of us.
I would probably use it again for a four-hour flight like that one to avoid the hassle of maneuvering that car seat through the narrow aisles of a plane, but for longer flights I will probably stick with the car seat both for his sleeping comfort and my peace of mind.
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