REFLECTOR: Seat Belts

[Rene Dugas]

Sorry. No inertial reels. I prefer to be firmly planted with snug  
belts 4 point all of the time.

Rene' Dugas
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On Aug 31, 2009, at 11:30 AM, "Jack Prock" <jackprock at comcast.net>  
wrote:

> I talked with the air bag seat belt company at Oshkosh. He said that  
> they only support
> certified aircraft right now, and if/when they did start to cover  
> the experimental market,
> they would only support the location/design that the factory would  
> recommend. They were
> also quite pricey, well over $1,000 apiece. (I don't know exactly,  
> because I had stopped
> really listening at that point!)
>
> I asked if I could just buy some that they carry for other planes  
> and modify my support
> locations to match. He said they won't do that since the location of  
> the airbag is critical
> and the liability to them is high if they are installed incorrectly.
>
> I did ask him if the four point restraint was much better than the  
> standard car three
> point restraint, and he said there were several studies that he had  
> seen that showed that
> the four point restraint was really not significantly better at  
> helping survival rates.
> I don't know if that is true...but I don't see why he would fib at  
> that point, since I was
> no longer a potential customer.
>
> Jack Prock
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Don Johnston
> To: reflector at tvbf.org
> Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 4:50 AM
> Subject: REFLECTOR: Seat Belts
>
> Jerry,
>
>
>
> I would expect them to be even more pricey and I haven’t seen them i 
> n a 4-point version.
>
>
>
>
>
> Rene,
>
>
>
> I looked through the Simpson site but I couldn’t find an inertia ree 
> l version. Do you have a model number?
>
>
>
> -Don
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>
>
> --------
>
> Don,
>
>
>
> Have you considered the the seat belts with the built in airbags? I
>
> forget the name of the company but it was mentioned here earlier  
> this year?
>
>
>
> Jerry S.
>
>
>
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