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I completely agree with your point about a seat sliding rearward on takeoff and being an issue. I have had a Cessna do that to me once and I will never forget it either.+1 on that, Wrat. I was biting my tongue to keep from posting the same response. At the next annual inspection, any IA inspector worth his shingle will ground the aircraft until the approved parts are reinstalled. It is his job to find "improvements" like this. A seat sliding back to the rear stop on takeoff is not a trivial matter...
I have watched IA's carefully inspect seat rails and parts, and they take seat reliability seriously.
If your street rod fails on the way to the swap meet, you call a tow truck. With an aircraft it is often the coroner who is called...
This plane uses a pin through both seat rails that positively lock the seats into position relegating that issue to Cessna's and others with an inferior design from the factory. When you lock the seat into position the pin goes thru both sides of the square tubing and the seat rail is trapped in the middle. Only way a seat could slide is if both pins were to fail which is damn near impossible.
This is only for the rolling portion and that is all. This plane does not use seat stops to prevent it from moving too far rearward as it has never been an issue with it at all.
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