Our police air wing was the proud owner of the first Bk117 in Australia. Under the regional marketing agreements, our machine came from Japan, rather than Germany.
The seat could move fore and aft, but had no height adjustment - it was too close to the ground, and us long-legged "pirates" (as the Japanese instructor called us) sat on the point of our bums with knees high in the air - very uncomfortable after a while.
We asked if there was a height-adjustable seat, and they said no. All pirates are the same size, according to them.
Subsequently we found a German catalogue for the BK, and in it was an option for a height adjustable seat. Seems that the 95th percentile of Japanese pirates were happy in the low-slung seat, but caucasians and aryans fell well outside the bell curve from Nippon.
They also lied about a nose-mount option for the night sun, but that's another story...
And my back has never recovered from Bell seats in Hueys and 206/407 series. The 76 seat is OK for an hour at a time, but long days are a pain in the @rse, despite woolly seat covers.
