Seat and seat belt certification ?

[buzzc152]

Does anyone know where I could find details of cs25 aircraft (transport aircraft) seat and seat belt requirements ie what standards they need to conform to, what minimum loads they need to be able to withstand etc ?

[john_tullamarine]

This (http://easa.europa.eu/system/files/dfu/ws_prod-g-doc-Agency_Mesures-Certification-Spec-CS-ETSO.pdf) is a useful place to commence research for questions relating to Euro-centric aviation matters.

Leave it for you to wade through to the specific bits which will be of interest to you.

Similarly, for the US style of things you could look here (http://rgl.faa.gov/Regulatory_and_Guidance_Library/rgTSO.nsf/MainFrame?OpenFrameSet).

Other countries have similar documents, eg Australia has a go at things here (http://www.casa.gov.au/scripts/nc.dll?WCMS:STANDARD::pc=PC_90502).

.. and so it goes on.

TSOs are the usual, but not necessarily the only, way to certificate bits and pieces of note on aircraft.

[buzzc152]

Thanks John

Unfortunately that EASA doc only refers to SAE docs which aren't available for free ($70 a go).

[john_tullamarine]

Then have a looksee at the FAA stuff .. it's not going to have any significant differences in certification standards. Unless your need is very specific it will do you fine.

In a previous life I was a seating design specialist but, alas, having been out of that discipline for many years any of my file material relates to earlier standards now superseded.