I love flying this plane, but as i get more and more flight time, and am able to do more and more with the plane, i found my self, wondering.
how does a real person get in this thing? the center console goes pretty far back, and it’s hard to gage size/perspective in the “Virtual” cockpit. and i can’t really find any videos on youtube showing a pilot straddling the center console to get sunk down into that seat.
can anyone link me to a video or just describe, how you would actually get into out of the pilot/co pilot seats,
i feel bad for the pilots in any kind of emergency, i can’t see how you would be able to quickly get out.
Left hand on headrest, right hand on overhead panel edge. Lift left leg and slide over front of seat bolster to the floor as you shift your left hip left to over center of the seat. Move your left hand to the left side window ledge and bring your right leg up and over the right edge of the seat with your knee towards the yoke. As your knee clears the front of the seat, straighten your leg and sit down. It’s not as tight a fit as you think, but you need some flexibility to make it smoothly.
I am 6 foot and 180lbs. @OctupleElm15084 describes to process quite nicely, although after getting in and out maybe a few hundred times over the years, I am not sure I could have described it in that detail. Well done.
That said, one of my fond memories of the KA was a co-pilot I had. He was about 5 foot 4 inches and about 220 lbs. Wasn’t fat, just really stocky. (great to have around when baggage handling ). Watching him get into his seat was always entertaining. Somehow he often ended up on his knees, facing the back of his seat and then had to twist around to sit. I could almost complete the prestart check in the time it took for him to get seated.
). Watching him get into his seat was always entertaining. Somehow he often ended up on his knees, facing the back of his seat and then had to twist around to sit. I could almost complete the prestart check in the time it took for him to get seated. 
