Blakey - I appreciate what you say about my personal admin, however, I was into PSF the day after my son was born to hand in the letter from TPMH and other paperwork as I knew this sort of faff was inbound. I had been told that it would take a couple of weeks for the birth certificate to come because it had to be typed out at Akrotiri and then be sent on for authentication etc. Once the birth certificate had been produced we could drive to Nicosia and get the passport. It took 6 weeks to get the birth certificate done because the typist was off sick and no-one had bothered to get a standin. When I offered to type it for PSF after the 4th week of trying to find out what was happening and explaining why I needed this document typing(leaving the country etc) did Aki PSF pull their finger out and sort it(still took another couple of weeks).
At that point I ensured that Customs were aware of the situation and that the necessary steps had been taken. Safe in the knowledge that I had covered the bases I relaxed to enjoy my last few days in the sun - silly me.
Echo 5 - did you see mythbusters do the aircraft crash seats demo - quite good, but they concluded that forward facing in the brace position was the best.
TMK1 - I have read the CAA doc and FAA doc and you are quite correct FAA doc para 10b does state that a child under 2 can be held during take off, landing and ground movement - but no mention of turbulence(?). The CAA doc states that para 2 (iv) that children under the age of 6 months should be secured by a supplementary loop device - that must be my arm then.
as for the final part - during the incident I was the model of restraint. Even the Midwife who delivered my son said that we were pretty calm. I had no wish to complain to other aircrew, but felt on this occasion I had to, and I suspect if you had come back to speak to me, with your attitude I would have got off before you offered the invite.
