A BAS-modified Bonanza that incorporates 4-point harness with inertial reel inside the headliner.

Staff Report

Played out time and again in crash-test videos and reflected in the gruesome aftermath of airplane accidents is an awful truth: Most pilots do not pay nearly enough attention to their seatbelts.

And by this we’re not simply referring to the pilots who have left buckles hanging outside their closed doors, making all kinds of racket banging against the fuselage in the time it takes the embarrassed pilot to come back for a landing. We’re also talking about owners who fly 30-year-old airplanes that sport nylon belts that are frayed and faded ghosts of the original equipment. And the owners who resist the notion of adding shoulder straps to their…