Removing front seat in Ovation

[NickG]

Does anyone know how easy or hard it is to remove the front right seat in the Ovation? I want to try a configuration with the right seat removed then my wife and dogs could sit in the back for long trips.

[Fritz1]

Takes about 10 min, remove stop bolts on rail front and back, slide seat out of rail, remove seal belt, take seat out of cockpit, do not ding wing skins

[Tommooney]

It helps for the seat to be either cranked full up or full down, I forget which. Try both. I saw a youtube somewhere on this.

Also, It was a couple years before I figured out I can take / pull the seat bottoms right up and out for cleaning as they are only velcroed in.

Tom

[NickG]

Wow,, thanks for the advice. It seems easy. How would I account for the removal of a front seat on the WB calcs….

[jcolgan]

6 hours ago, NickG said:

Wow,, thanks for the advise. It seems easy. How would I account for the removal of a front seat on the WB calcs….

Weigh the seat and enter the negative of that weight in the calculation.  

[Fritz1]

enter the co-pilot with negative weight