LESSON LEARNED: Seat sling failure

Aircraft Legacy Sonex
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Seat sling failure.

Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2022 9:54 pm

by rbarber

While flying (like a jackass) I felt a pop under my seat. Nothing else changed. When got back home I investigated and found my seat sling had failed. After looking it over, Decided to simply rivet a aluminum patch with a larger radius, using three rows of rivets on each side of the crack. There are a few possible causes for the failure :

  1. I am getting too fat!
  2. I pull too many Gs too often
  3. some combination of 1) & 2)
  4. 1200 hrs of jackass pilot is asking too much for 0.025" aluminum.
  5. my landings are worse than I thought.

Comments?

R.
N157SX (Sexy Hexy)
1200 hrs of severe stress testing.