Playseat® Air Force

I was a little nervous ordering it after reading so much negative feedback on here.The instructions are indeed very sparse and miss many crucial points, hence no doubt the problems others have faced.The side mounts for controllers for instance, are very firm, yet easily and cleverly adjustable when assembled perfectly, but easy to get wrong with the vague instructions. Their sliding "t-bar" design means that the clamping bolts have to be the perfect length, or they bottom out before tightening, or they do not have enough thread to bite into. When adjusted perfectly with additional washers, the grip very strongly. Also, the threaded bars that they screw into have a shallow concave shape one side, which prevent any rocking when put in the right way round.Also, the seat itself reclines as well as folds, a great advantage over other Playseats that I've tried.I mounted it on castors, which brings the seat height to just over 500mm, perfect for my screens.

Slider rails were broken and bent, the instructions are really REALLY bad and WRONG. Like, literally telling you to do the wrong thing that WILL break the seat.The seat itself is comfortable, but the platforms for the flight controls are screwed onto pretty flimsy outcrops so any quick or sudden adjustments on the joystick/thrust levers results in a slight bounce...most irritating.The middle platform for a joystick is really hard to get into its slot.I paid for this, and I'll use it, but I feel cheated. I'll be going for Next Level Racing next time, hands down.Pros:*Comfortable seat. Genuinely*Good range to adjust flight control platforms*Folding seat is a huge bonus for space savingCons:*Arrived damaged*Worst instructions ever, that are wrong, not unclear. WRONG. It literally was telling me to assemble it in such a way that would damage the seat (Seems like that's why it arrived damaged, I got returned goods by the looks of it)*Flimsy controller platform holders*Platform for middle stick not that good. Too close for a good height for a yoke, very bulky for a middle stick*Massively overpriced for the quality of the product

The manufacturer's website claims that this can be set up in ten minutes. TEN MINUTES? Maybe in a parallel dimension. This took hours to construct. The instructions are like some sort of logic test. You have to play great attention to tiny, tiny details to work out which items should be used and where. And it what order. It also doesn't help that the screws pictured are not always the ones which you should use. Which you only find out later in the when you realise that the one you previously used is actually the one you should be using now. Some of the bits are extremely fiddly and refuse to screw in. And the final attachment of the seat to the base is definitely a two-person job.This is all a shame because the seat is actually very good. It's solid. It doesn't have casters but can be slid around on carpet. The adjustability of the side mounts for joystick / throttle / gearstick is good. The bar which holds the piece onto which you connect a flight yoke or, in my case, a force-feedback wheel has very little flex (when tightened up properly). It's a little bit of a performance getting in and out of it but it's achievable (even with my slightly-impared mobility).FWIW, my Thrustmaster TX wheel base is compatible with the seat. I saw some reports online from people who have had to cut the wheel mount to make their wheel fit because of a plastic bar which sticks out under the wheel mount. I think it's the clamp on some wheels (maybe Logitech) is incompatible. The Thrustmaster's clamps on my wheel are *just* either side of the bar and that's OK on this seat.

Don't get me wrong, I like the seat. But I can't put my Saitek X56 Hotas on the central joystick support. I have to use the side one.I think that should be made clearer because I probably wouldn't have bought it.Minimum I'd have looked around more.

Works well on my pc rig, with flight sticks and occulus rift gives you in the cockpit feeling on elite dangerous.Works well as driving set with wheel attached to flight yoke mount as well.Great chair well worth it for geeky types like me!