One comment on tempur foam. We had it in both our seat bottoms and the
back, where the lumbar support is. On longer trips, we both had some
back pain. We discovered that the carefully placed lumbar support was
going away because the tempur foam was relaxing over time (due to body
heat?). We replaced the tempur foam at the seat back with regular
upholstery foam, which solved the problem. Of course, we left the
tempur foam in the seat bottom to provide the crash protection it
provides.
regards,
Terry Seaver
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Trombley
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 9:52 AM
Subject: Europa-List: Bubble doors
Frank,
I concur with Karl, try memory foam. Additionally, I found the design
of the seat bottom
and seat back to be critically important if you are to fly more than a
couple of hours at
a time. I am 6'1" (186cm)and am able to fly 4 hour legs without
complaint. The key
for me was to have a semi-reclined seating position with good lumbar
support. This is
achieved by having the seat back follow the angle of the head rest
(rather than have it
flush vertically against the cockpit module. This puts the bottom of
the seat back
cushion around 4" or so from the back of the cockpit module. The seat
bottom is
made from tempur foam utilizing two 1" thick plys of foam (one blue and
one green).
I have posted a few pictures on the builder forum.
Regards,
Erich Trombley
N28ET Classic Mono 914
Try using a cushion out of memory foam. You must be very tall.
Karl
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-List: Bubble doorsDate: Sun=2C 4 Jan 2009 00:11:46 +0100
Dear All=2C
last November I bought D-EJWD=2C a Europa Classic Mono with Rotax 912
UL.
Since the headroom is definately not sufficient with cussions installed
jus
t thick enough for a comfortable seating position (for max. 2
hour-flights)
- I am looking for those bubble doors I have seen on few UK-pictures on
eu
ropaowners.org.
Where are they from? Did aerodynamics change with installation? Are
there a
ny other options of getting more headroom easily?
Thanks for a hint or two.
Regards=2C
Frank KusserowEuropa Classic Mono
Essen/Germany
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