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Mark:
Don Barnes is correct, as always. I really do love my Legacy, and I fit very comfortably in my airplane, even though I am just over 6'3", pretty much all in the legs (not a great situation, really). My goal in setting up the airplane was to take as much as possible out of the kink in my legs while sitting in the pilot's seat, so as to bring my shins down away from the bottom of the panel. It appeared to me that this can be aided by moving the pedals forward and down, and by moving the pilot's rearend aft and up. We cut down the floorboard insert on the pilot's side by more than an inch, which worked very well. We also mounted the adjustable pedal assembly to studs on the firewall, taking it forward about an inch. I also worked with the interior foam and construction to get my tailbone as far aft as I could without sacrificing comfort, and as high as I could without coming too close to the canopy. Dave Biles, who did my interior using Oregon Aero foam, also made some matching leather trimmed inserts that fit behind the seat back for persons of other sizes, as well as some alternative high density foam pieces that go under the seat bottom to change the height. My wife uses the insert behind the back on the right seat, plus an additional foam wedge under the seat so she can get about the same view I have. It all works out very well.
As for the adjustable pedals, though, as I said, I would get them again because I like them. I suppose, as others have mentioned, they also would be a plus if I were going to sell my plane. Carl Lewis
Legacy #203
IO-550, 110 hours
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