In preparation to doing the weight and balance, I need to get the seats in. The back seats I just put in the back. But I bolted down the front seats. That’s when I noticed something… With the co-pilot seat installed, it’s really difficult getting in and out of the back.  It’s doable, but not easy.

I think it’s because I mounted the seat pretty far aft on the bracket to give Ann some legroom (that girl has some long legs!).

So now the question is: How do I get that seat to move farther forward? Seemed easy to me.  Fit some seat rails that have more travel. The current ones have only about 6″ of front to rear travel.

I Googled, called, emailed every vendor I could find that makes seat rails. Zilch, nada, zip. Every single one that I found will only move about 7″ max.  I found this surprising since about every car I’ve driven for the past 20 years has seats that can move at least 12″.

At this point, I can only come up with two possible options.

1) Hit the auto salvage yards and see if I can find a low profile seat rail that will work.

2) Get a second seat rail and mount it between the seat and the bracket. That way the whole assembly can be moved forward and then the seat itself can be moved forward another 7″.

The good news is that it doesn’t have to be done right away since I’m the only one that will be in the plane for the first 25 hours and after that, there probably won’t be anyone in the back seats for a while.