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1/2 place flex seating configuration
Trading off tandem vs side by side seating I came upon an idea I
wanted to run by the group. The mission my aircraft needs to perform is mostly a single place weekend out and back kind of mission, with an occasional 2 person XC trip. I'd been homing on the tandem seat config because I like the fighter plane style symetric seating. But my spouse doesn't like the idea of having to look at the back of my head for 4 hours on trips and prefers the side by side configuration. But I don't want to sit scrunched on one side of the aircraft year round with the canopy next the side of my head because twice a year she wants to have a seat beside me. And of course you have the left/right unbalance. But then after a ride in a Zenith I had an idea: Zenith planes use single stick between the 2 passengers, either person can use to fly. If the seat was bench style, I could sit in the middle when flying solo, and push the 2 outside rudder pedals of the 2 pairs (or move cables to the 2 middle ones). You don't really need a bucket seat in an airplane as you do in a car because most forces are normal to the plane defined by the wings and thrust vector. It would just be a nice roomy single seater at that point. Anyone seen anything like this before? |
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