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The ones that are in my plane were APPROVED when the Type Certificate
of the plane was issued....no AD has come out to invalidate them.


OK, I'll stay in, how does the reg I referenced (in pt 91) not "apply"
the given situation?.

I didn't say it didn't apply, but you should try reading the regulation. It doesn't
say anything about approved safety belts. It says approved seat/bearth.
Even so, that approval is conformance with the type certificate. Back in 1950
the FAA approved it and hasn't rescinded that approval.



I am by no means trying to tell you that you are wrong, or that a
TSO'd belt is categorically required by the CFR, or by your Type
Certificate.

Then what are you arguing?


I am afraid I have to disagree with the ignorant inspector comment. In
twenty years I have never had anyone successfully "ground" an aircraft
that I was maintaining.


He would be ignorant if he grounded an older aircraft based on the lack of TSO
tags for the seat belt. It was a hypothetical.