How many inches of leg room does a reclined seat take?
I'm in a debate in a forum for my law school property class regarding airline leg room and who has the property right to the space taken when a seat is reclined. I'm curious how much space that actually is and I don't have a flight for a few weeks to do a measurement. I've found numbers online which speak to the distance taken by the top of the seat but that's going to be different than the amount taken where the knees are. Anyone on a flight with a tape measure/ruler or will be on one in the next day or so who can tell me? Or know rough numbers already?
I don't intend for this to start another debate about the etiquette of reclining which I realize hotly debated.