If you do a search you will find quite a discussion on seat pans and support blocks. Apparently there were some instances (mostly on earlier models I think) of seat pans front and/or back support lips breaking during turbulence and heavy pilots and then falling down and jamming the control rods under the seat. This is very serious, so I glued some support blocks that just barely touch the seat bottom when installed normally and would prevent any jamming of the rods. This was not my idea, but was picked up from others on the forum. It was simple and easy to do. I have not heard of this problem for quite a while now, so probably the later models have the seat pan reinforced adequately. Anyway, for me it was good cheap and easy insurance.