Today we fitted the new extension pieces to the seats. This brings them up to a far more comfortable position. I can see why the seats were designed to be reclining as if you raise them too much, you hit your head on the safety cage. I started with 1 1/4″ extensions but these were too long. The best length for us was 3/4″ extensions.
Seat as supplied by Rans
New 3/4" extension fitted
Seats before (in the background) and after (in the foreground) of fitting the seat's extension pieces
After fitting, I went up for a test flight to see how they were in flight and was very pleased with them. The flight however was very bumpy and it was a real fight to keep her straight on the final approach with my hands moving the stick like mad and my feet doing a tap dance on the pedals. I still have to find out why when I take off the wind is straight down the runway, but within a few minutes in the air it has turned to a blustery crosswind. 
New lightweight cover by Cover Systems
The final thing today was we tried out our new lightweight cover from Cover Systems. It is designed for a Skyranger and is about 3″ too short to be perfect, but it does the job I want it to do.
Nice job Tony. Amazing what a difference a small change like that can make, isn’t it.
Roger
It sure is, but it is the small things like this that make the aircraft ‘yours’. What suits us would not suit others.
I have just joined the G-BYZO syndicate and i must admit my first thoughts were “these seats seam to reline a lot!” Having had a Skyranger before the seats feel dead strange and I think a cushion is in order!
H Phil,
I am sure you will enjoy G-BYZO. I started off with cushions to see roughly how much I needed, but there were two problems with them. 1, I only needed the cushion at the top of the seat, if it was the same thickness all the way down it pushed me too far forward, so a wedge shaped cushion was required and 2, the cushion kept moving, hence biting the bullet and putting in the spacers. Unfortunately as a syndicate aircraft you will probably be stuck with the cushion option.