Question about seats in a Piper Seminole...

Future Cpt Kirk

Future Cpt Kirk

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Question to anyone who has flown the Seminole.... I am a 6'3, 230lb guy...not exactely small. I find the seat on the Seminole to be unusually narrow. In addition, the cushioning on the 2000 models is very soft. As a result, when I sit in the plane, the cushion depresses and I find the metal seat frame (on the right side) digging into my backside a great deal. After about an hour of flying it becomes pretty unbearable.... I have tried several seat cusions to aid. They do help, but are not perminant solutions. They simply delay the oncoming uncomfort. Has anyone else experienced this? Any solutions? Any advice would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!​
 
Sounds like a Piper Seminole seat to me! Piper Aircraft Seats are just terrible

Just try and find the best seat cusion with a lot of padding its about the only thing you can do.
 
I'm only 5'7", 140 lbs, and doing my XC's in the Seminole was torture...2.5 hours max was all I could take. They are very narrow (and I'm tiny!). Whoever designed those things was a masochist.
 
DV8Pilot said:
Find a BE-76 or BE-95 to fly.
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The TravelAire is cool. The Duchess is junk. But yes. Having sat for prolonged periods in all three of those aircraft (6'5 and 185), I'll take the Beech any day.

The problem with almost every airplane I've flown is not necessarily the seat, but having too much leg and too little legroom. Leads to awkward contortions and short Captains non-ironically admonishing me to watch my head on my way into and out of the Brasilia.
 
I know what you mean. Im 6'3" and 280lbs and have done 10 hours days in the Seminole with 3-4 hours legs. :( I was hurting for a while every time.
 
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FOREVER sounds pretty permanent
 
When I instructed in the semen-hole I don't recall having a problem with the seat. I'm 6'2" and I weighed 240 back then. Maybe I was just thrilled to be giving instruction in a twin?
 
Oooooh you pilots.... I did 8 hours in one day around lake michigan, with 2 fuel stops, and with the exception of a stiff back from sitting I was fine. "Suck it up, cupcake!" as my sim instructor says... You think the Semenhole seats are uncomfortable, try the E-145's... hot dayum those things suck big time...
 
KHanson said:
Oooooh you pilots.... I did 8 hours in one day around lake michigan, with 2 fuel stops, and with the exception of a stiff back from sitting I was fine. "Suck it up, cupcake!" as my sim instructor says... You think the Semenhole seats are uncomfortable, try the E-145's... hot dayum those things suck big time...
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Imagine twenty plus years of wear and abuse on those seats. :)
 
KHanson said:
Which ones? Cuz the seminole I flew was more than 20, that's for sure. It was a 1978, so 35 years... I don't know how "old" the E145's are, honestly.
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So if you look in detail at those seats in your "old" EMB 145 (and at a few other parts of that flight deck, actually) you will see a bunch of 120-dash part numbers.

So "those" seats.
 
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