I recently noticed that one of my pilot seat hardpoints was no longer holding properly, allowing the seat to flex a bit (it didn’t really move, but there a perceptible flexing of the base/frame). I had previously put a helicoil in this one, having likely cross-threaded it at some point. Anyway, it was something that […]
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Check out this maintenance article on repairing a stripped seat hardpoint. For formatting only Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisci elit, sed eiusmod tempor incidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrum exercitationem ullam corporis suscipit laboriosam, nisi ut aliquid ex ea commodi consequatur. Quis […]
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We’ve purchased automotive seat belts in a matching gray color for our interior. We’ve also mounted the hardpoints to mount them to. In the front the shoulder hardpoint is in the rollover beam, and then the lower hardpoints mount to the keel and side of the fuselage, respectively. In the rear, the lower hardpoints are […]
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The seats are being upholstered by www.oregonaero.com, which includes installing the two setting seat heaters that we purchased from Sports Imports, but we need to install the switches. These are pop-in switches, so we just drilled a 3/4″ hole and popped them in just in front of each pair of seats. Front Seat Heater Switches
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The seat belt hard points are fairly time consuming. First, each seat gets for seat belt hard points, the inboard side gets one for the belt receptacle, and on the outboard side there’s one for the inertial reel, one for the the shoulder belt, and one for the lap belt. We’ve elected to install the […]
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We’ve decided on Oregon Aero to do our upholstery and temper foam the seats. They were nice enough to offer to ship us their “standard Velocity” foam package at no charge to see if that would meet our need, or allow us to give them input for our seats. We’ll ship them the seats for custom foam […]
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