Any recommendations on a good place to have the seats rebuilt? They are getting pretty sloppy and will need recovering soon.

Flying Dave wrote:Any recommendations on a good place to have the seats rebuilt? They are getting pretty sloppy and will need recovering soon.

Any competent mechanic can “rebuild” the seat articulating mechanism. If you’re handy, you could do it yourself. Most times you just need to replace the roll pins.

Recover is a different deal. My favorite is Oregon Aero. Not cheap, but they do great work,

MTV

Mike is right. Hopefully it's just the roll pins that are shot. The jack screws and nuts used for the seat back and up/down are very expensive from cessna. Preferred airparts may have some, or used from skywagon city will save you some $$.

It appears to me to be a combo platter of almost every moving point in the seat that is causing all of the slop. Strangely the right seat seems to be worse than the left.

I'd go with: http://www.sportaircraftseats.com/sport ... /Home.html

Mine are totally awesome!

Dave,

In my experience, the worst abuse of those front seats, and what causes the most damage is back seat passengers, using the front seat back as a handle to yard themselves out of the back (uphill, ya know). Then there’s the bubba who’s in the front seat but has to plant his feet and push like hell on the seat back so he can adjust his undies.

The pilot seat sometimes takes less abuse because the pilot has found out what parts cost.

Anyway, I ALWAYS offered information on not abusing those seats as part of my passenger safety briefing. And be firm give them another option.

MTV

mtv wrote:Dave,

In my experience, the worst abuse of those front seats, and what causes the most damage is back seat passengers, using the front seat back as a handle to yard themselves out of the back (uphill, ya know). Then there’s the bubba who’s in the front seat but has to plant his feet and push like hell on the seat back so he can adjust his undies.

The pilot seat sometimes takes less abuse because the pilot has found out what parts cost.

Anyway, I ALWAYS offered information on not abusing those seats as part of my passenger safety briefing. And be firm give them another option.

MTV

My favorite is the passenger pilot that knows about the AD se they violently rock the seat back and forth to “make sure the pin is in the hole”

Bagarre wrote:

mtv wrote:Dave,

In my experience, the worst abuse of those front seats, and what causes the most damage is back seat passengers, using the front seat back as a handle to yard themselves out of the back (uphill, ya know). Then there’s the bubba who’s in the front seat but has to plant his feet and push like hell on the seat back so he can adjust his undies.

The pilot seat sometimes takes less abuse because the pilot has found out what parts cost.

Anyway, I ALWAYS offered information on not abusing those seats as part of my passenger safety briefing. And be firm give them another option.

MTV

My favorite is the passenger pilot that knows about the AD se they violently rock the seat back and forth to “make sure the pin is in the hole”

Hopefully your response was: “Get the f&@$k outta my airplane.”

MTV

Bagarre wrote:

mtv wrote:Dave,

In my experience, the worst abuse of those front seats, and what causes the most damage is back seat passengers, using the front seat back as a handle to yard themselves out of the back (uphill, ya know). Then there’s the bubba who’s in the front seat but has to plant his feet and push like hell on the seat back so he can adjust his undies.

The pilot seat sometimes takes less abuse because the pilot has found out what parts cost.

Anyway, I ALWAYS offered information on not abusing those seats as part of my passenger safety briefing. And be firm give them another option.

MTV

My favorite is the passenger pilot that knows about the AD se they violently rock the seat back and forth to “make sure the pin is in the hole”

I've flown with that guy. He's the same one that slams the door 4 or 5 times and throws his headset up on the glareshield.

Do the articulating seats (like out of a 206) get the pilot any closer to the rudder pedals? My wife is 5'2" and even with rudder pedal extensions and a thick cushion, she's on her tip toes to reach the pedals. She's a great pilot but flying a 180 using your tip toes and absolutely difficult.

Thanks.

Ace007 wrote:Do the articulating seats (like out of a 206) get the pilot any closer to the rudder pedals? My wife is 5'2" and even with rudder pedal extensions and a thick cushion, she's on her tip toes to reach the pedals. She's a great pilot but flying a 180 using your tip toes and absolutely difficult.

Thanks.

I don’t think the articulating seats get the legs any closer. Articulating seats in the 185 with extensions I still need a cushion behind my back to get full rudder deflection. I’m the same height as your wife. I could get away without a back cushion, but the seat slants and it’s better with the extra reach.


I use these extensions for the pedals. I like the newer style pedals vs the older round top rudder pedals. But even flying a 170 with the round top pedals, all I used was a cushion behind me to reach the pedals.

Don’t know what you are using for the rudder extensions. These are $$$ but I’m happy not having difficulty flying the airplane.

https://m.skygeek.com/1960-to-1980-cess ... sions.html

Ace007 wrote:Do the articulating seats (like out of a 206) get the pilot any closer to the rudder pedals? My wife is 5'2" and even with rudder pedal extensions and a thick cushion, she's on her tip toes to reach the pedals. She's a great pilot but flying a 180 using your tip toes and absolutely difficult.

Thanks.

No, the articulating seats don’t get you any closer to the pedals, unfortunately. As noted by the previous post, the newer style (thermoplastic) pedals help a bit, but a cushion behind one’s back is about all you can do fore and aft. The articulating seats do allow you to elevate the seat, as in make the sight line higher, which is nice for shorter pilots.

MTV