On another forum, £700 to supply and change a seat belt. On permit, about £40 for a very high quality seatbelt
That'll be the "mandatory" chucking -away of complete Cessna belts because they were "time expired" even though they lived in a hangar within a covered cockpit (so, no UV degradation) and even though some firms were perfectly capable of re-webbing the (sometimes totally unused) fittings, they weren't allowed to....yup! It's all here on PpRune, if you care to search........the good news.....
THAT'S HISTORY....An outbreak of commonsense has prevailed, but only after a lot of poor sods wasted several thousand pounds each, because of some over-zealous stick-waving jobsworth.
I read there is a sea-change in the CAA and carefully-built little empires are being scrutinised and dismantled or rebuilt....
Mr. Cynic, here, says it's probably due to the tentacles of EASA getting an ever -firmer grip and CAA have finally grasped that they need to fight that beaurocracy instead of biting off the hand that feeds them.