Recommended reading if you, or an acquaintance, has an F. Atlee Dodge jump seat fitted, STC'd or Field Approved:

http://rgl.faa.gov/Regulatory_and_Guidance_Library/rgSAIB.nsf/dc7bd4f27e5f107486257221005f069d/340b68d0493e081d862582cf0057fc92/$FILE/CE-18-23.pdf

Referenced Service Bulletin in preceding SAIB is online at: http://www.fadodge.com/documentation/service-bulletins/

Avoid passenger defenestration! ("to eject thru a window"; my high school French-English teacher is smiling, somewhere)

Fly safely,
Pat

I have BAS jumpers in mine but know a lot of guys with Dodge seats.
I'll forward that link onto them.
Thanks for posting it.

Cliff Notes:

You can't use the original Cessna seatbelt anchors, must be anchored to the new rails with Ancra mounts: https://www.mcfarlaneaviation.com/products/product/40340-20/
Seats must have seatbelt guides, FA Dodge sells them: $115 for the kit.
Location of seatbelt and seat leg anchor points should be marked on the rails.

My plane had all three wrong when I bought it...

I have what used to be BAS. My seat belts and across body shoulder harness are mounted to the floor and ceiling. No body in their right mind would mount them to the flimsy seat

Tim

Prosaria wrote:...You can't use the original Cessna seatbelt anchors, must be anchored to the new rails with Ancra mounts...

That being an identified problem kinda surprised me.
I don't think there's anything wrong with clipping the seat belts to the rails,
but the Cessna attachment (as per the BAS install instructions) seems just as beefy, if not more so.
Is it an angle-of-the-belt thing?

hotrod180 wrote:<snip>
Is it an angle-of-the-belt thing?

Angle-of-the-belt is one factor. See 25-year old AC 21-34 - Shoulder Harness-Safety Belt Installations,
http://www.faa.gov/documentLibrary/media/Advisory_Circular/AC_21-34.pdf

There's a lotta text in that AC.
Anything in particular applicable to this SAIB?

hotrod180 wrote:There's a lotta text in that AC.
Anything in particular applicable to this SAIB?

Hmm, I didn't mean to muddy the waters with Too Much Information: I edited my first post with a link to FA Dodge's Service Bulletin page.

Because this site has a diverse and technically interested audience (vintage Taylorcrafts to amateur-built Bearhawks), the AC 21-34 link was provided to hilite various considerations when installing restraints. Knowledge is power, and hopefully begets safety.