Originally Posted by
sailingfun
All you need is a foam foot rest and a standard first class seat and your good to go. Costs about 50 bucks for the footrest. Actually you don’t even need the first class seat. A coach seat modified to recline 40 degrees is legal as well as a cockpit jumpseat.
) Class 3 Rest Facility. A class 3 rest facility is a seat in an aircraft cabin or flight deck that reclines at least 40 degrees. It provides leg and foot support (§ 117.3, TNO Report recommendation paragraph 5.2.5).
I don't see anywhere in that reg where it addresses just throwing a foam footrest on the floor, "it" appears to me to refer to the seat itself. Any modification would need to be approved by the FAA and added to the MEL, I don't think it's as easy as you imply.