Originally Posted by Dream Land
Pilot seats on modern jet airliners have electronic controls for forward and aft movement, and for height adjustment
Our seat controls are solely based on pneumatics.
Originally Posted by Dream Land
should the electronics fail, these adjustments can be accomplished manually
Yes, but you may meet a mechanical interlocking device called Rückfallebene ;-)
Originally Posted by Dream Land
so unless there is some catastrophic failure, the pilot seat itself is never an issue.
Congratulations - the locomotive engineers seat still is
