Tell you what, I just blasted out of a village strip near McGrath Ak this morning in the soup with froze instruments, windshield, and 3 froze souls on board, and by god we all would have loved to have heated seats, let alone heated anything while climbing to 6.5k. What a great idea! look into what Mike V had in those huskies, Think Im going to.

UH-60andC-180 wrote:Just the thought of the seat heater is making me sleepy. I'll heat the seat the old fashioned way, bean dip and exhaust fumes.

Every car I've ever ridden in with heated seats had a laxative effect on me. This may be a bad idea.

I sure like heated seats in the car. They're almost a necessity with either vinyl or leather seats, because it takes forever to warm those with your butt. But I'm not as sure about cloth seats needing them. When I drive Mah Woman's car, which has unheated cloth seats, it's not uncomfortable even in pretty cold weather.

My airplane has cloth seats. I had Oregon Aero do their comfort conversion to my pilot seat, and although it's hard as a brick when I first get in when it's cold, it doesn't take too long for my butt to warm it enough that it becomes pliable, but in the meanwhile, it's really not all that cold feeling.

My airplane's heater is sufficient down to about +20F, and gets progressively less powerful as the temp drops from there. If I flew in colder weather than that, maybe heated seats would be a good idea. But I mostly don't like the cold all that much, so I'm not likely to fly in colder weather than that. With age comes wimpiness.

Cary

I have them in the PA-12 (experimental) and they work great. A lot less complaining from my wife in the back seat now!

NunavutPA-12 wrote:I have them in the PA-12 (experimental) and they work great. A lot less complaining from my wife in the back seat now!

That's what the "pilot isolate" position on the intercom switch is for.