Seat Adjustment

[corefile]

Sorry if this seems like a dumb question, is there any adjustment capability of the front seats? Are they independent seats. What I'm after is, I'm a wide shoulder guy so in my 182 I always have my passenger slide back a little so we are not shoulder to shoulder. Any option for that in the bearhawk?

[Chris In Milwaukee]

Yessir, each seat is individually adjustable up front

[Zzz]

They adjust fore and aft only along a track that is built into the seat frame. There is no current design for recline adjustment, though I know of no other aircraft at this level that have that either.

[Mark Moyle]

Mine are modified cessna seats. Up/down nearly three inches. The back rest has two positions in addition to folding forward.


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[jaredyates]

The standard kit seats travel on the order of 6 inches, and when they go aft, they also go down a little.

[tailwind]

I modified my seat so that it will recline. I raised the hinge point 1.5 - 2 inches from the factory position. Then I welded in a high temp nut into the bottom of the seat back tube at the rear and installed a 1/4-28 bolt so that the angle can be changed. The seat can now fold forward as well as change the seat back angle. It must be done on the ground but now I can preset my seat back to a comfortable angle.

[corefile]

Do you have any pictures? would love to see this a more detail.

[tailwind]

I will get some pictures and try to post this evening.

[tailwind]

Here are the pictures of the seat reclining system. First I bent up a clevis to go around the seat bottom tube. I aligned this clevis with the original mounting holes on the seat bottom, clamped it into position and drilled a hole in the clevis so that I could bolt it to the seat bottom. The distance that you raise your new hinge point will determine how much recline you have in your system. Notice that I have moved the hinge point from the side of the seat bottom tube to the top of the seat bottom tube. I drilled new holes in my clevis to get a new raised hinge point. At the rear of the seat back where the vertical tube meets the horizontal hinge tube I drilled a hole and welded in a high temperature nut. You can see only a small portion of the high temp nut and the head of the bolt used to adjust the recline of my seat back. Since the seat back is in alignment with the bottom tube the bolt rides against the seat bottom tube.