Seat installation

[ALAN]

I had one of them oops it was not a good thing just after take off I had the seat pan drop down It was a bad few min B-4 I could get my fox back around and put her down I knew what the prob was as soon as it happened the zip ties had snaped and I had a 200 lb guy with me. We had to hold our body's off the seat to get her down safe. Go with good clamps no zip ties.

Alan

[darinh]

I added straps made of webbing similar to seat belt material. I secured it with a tri-clamp. The webbing is about 1" wide and is rated at 3000 lbs. tensile strenth or something crazy like that. I'm sure there are many that will call me crazy, but I have never seen the need for the zip ties or clamps at all on the seat. Mine has a lip on both the top and the bottom that nicely wraps around the tubing and stays in place. Any situation such as turbulence or negative g's, are not an issue because the seat belts are holding me firmly in the seat and thus keeping it down. I have around 60 hours in my Kitfox and don't see the need for the ties. Makes removing and checking the fuel system much faster and easier.

[RV6flyer]

I can not picture how the tri-clamp is used to secure the straps.

[alexM]

Super old thread but I had never heard of a tri-clamp before. I don't see how that could be employed here either.
In regards to straps, one can't overlook how much they stretch. I had to specify some for my day job to restrain a decompression panel and had to account for the stretch, which was about 25% if I recall correctly. Let's just say it was a good thing that the person sitting in front of the panel would be pushed out of the way in the 28 milliseconds for the entire event.