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Old 13th Apr 2005, 19:05
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NickLappos
 
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Sasless,

Get a grip. You don't think anyone tries to make the seatuncomfortable, do you? For one model, we actually designed the seat to precisely suit a customer pilot board, against the advice of the test pilots. We designed the seat to their exact requirements, and they loved it. Then, one year later, when we produced the seat, the new pilots from the same companies couldn't stand the seat, they rejected it (and the original prototype that their buddies had designed!)

I don't doubt that the seats are uncomfortable for some pilots, I merely think that all pilots are uncomfortable in a seat or two, and some pilots are uncomfortable in all seats, and No pilot is comfortable in all seats.

The only people who believe that stupid manufacturers try to make crappy seats, at a cost of perhaps 2 million dollars total, are dumb pilots. And I don't know a single dumb pilot ;-)
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