Comfortable seating for bizav crews
You may be thinking outside the cockpit, but the other end of you is still firmly stuck in the cockpit, and the flight is a lot more pleasant if that end i

You may be thinking outside the cockpit, but the other end of you is still firmly stuck in the cockpit, and the flight is a lot more pleasant if that end is in a comfortable place.

That’s the gospel according to IPECO, one of only a handful of pilot-seat manufacturers. According to Rick Martin, sales manager of the company’s U.S. division, the company got its start in 1978 in response to complaints of Learjet pilots who claimed that their cockpit seats were not so far removed from the wicker chairs of the early open-cockpit biplanes.