Wiggly, this depends on the seat design/builder, at least two models I know of are legal to be installed facing forward or aft, used in combies and for club seating, having said that its no big mod to place a nesting strip to beef up the recline mechanism and bottom pivot point, most of the seat rails already meet the G requirments, Im sure we will hear all sorts of reasons why it cant be done from the industry, the facts are however it has been done by the RAF and others in the past and has saved lives, the originator of the RAF seat system was a Polish fellow serving in the RAF but his name escapes me right now, I will try to dig up his writings on the subject.
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