Possible Clues:

• Seat must have top class cover — a logical way to think
• Poor satire upset one, from experience
• Experiential
• What's excellent about seat is discovered from experience
• Excellent soldiers, including Bill, one affected by experience
• With hindsight
• Bill going round port in capital as an afterthought
• Awkward operator - one is requiring evidence
• Relating to reasoning from experience (from Latin)
• Operators I repeatedly replaced, based on experience