Seat sling failure.
Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2022 4:52 pmI had a seat sling failure at about 1190 hours. Apparently the cause was one of the following:
1) I am getting fatter. Comes with getting older I suppose.
2) too many bad landings.
3) Bad flying practices. As most of you know, I fly like a jackass.
The seat was of the "lowered" variety, so it only dropped about 1/4". Just enough to test the sphincter.
The repair was to splice with another piece 0.025", using 3 rows of rivets on the bottom, and 4 on the back (extra row for the hinge) . Seems legit enough.