Playseat® Air Force

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High quality seat, very comfortable. You can adjust the back to suit your needs and the seat fits perfectly with my flight stick.

I sure do love this product. A+ and highly recommendable! Proper respect to the company making this product and doing so at such an affordable price!

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The best thing beyond the very good comfort level when you sit down - are the mounts for i.e. the Thrustmaster HOTAS Warthog.

This is a must have! It makes the user experience flying so much easier. Using Oculus Rift and similar immersive experiences from time to time just emphasize that since you can easily feel your through the controls as they remain positioned just next to you.

As I normally use a large display area i.e. triple screen or bigger in front of me (Oculus just too hard on the eyes for continuous use) I also have a touch screen in front of me i.e. using Win8, Win10 or beyond.

I did an easy to do home cockpit mainly using inspiration from modern avionics following digitalization in modern cockpits.

To "connect" the platform I did mounting touch screen in front and multiple displays I bought the mat accessory too to aesthetically bind the seat with what is in front of me. It looks better than having the sear standing there alone.

The seat is very comfortable (When I tried it first time - it felt hard until I discovered I had forgot to put in both of the cushions. No wonder it felt not soft ;o)

You sit very comfortable and beyond my expectation for a "playable" seat like this. I normally sit working in a luxury HÅG office chair - and this seat is up to it! Very, very good.

The features of the seat are very nice. I just got hold of some extra bolts to screw the HOTAS Warthog flight stick and thrust onto their mounts. Lots of possibilities to adjust stuff to fit your height etc.

Do consider buying the rods so you can move the seat backward and forward without pushing the whole thing. That is going to make it easier to operate (I initially put the seat before a table but now I actually do need that feature in the home cockpit I did with the LADs. And oh, if in front of a table you can push the back of the seat forward to compress the space taken by the seat)

All in all a very well made high quality product for flight simmers both considering build quality, comfort, feature and flexibility. A product made be someone who made this for himself first I guess. No bad quality stuff. Really well made.

The only thing I wonder is ... why did I not go and buy this before (even the price was rather cheap and I found some one in Europe selling it cheaper than locally including the transport ;o)

If you buy into flight control systems like Thrustmaster HOTAS Warthog (it even comes with a mount included for a Yoke) ... you are already putting a bit of your pocket forward ... and you definitely need this to complete your experience. It will be so much better.

Glad I did opt out of the office chair! Best decision ever!

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This is a solid chair of high quality. It is perfect for flight simulation, especially with of combination of a side stick and a tthrollte quadrant (e.g. for 2 engines).
Its big advantage is the "dual function": It can be used as a (beautiful!) "office chair" for any computer / business work; and within one minute, it can be changed into a "cockpit seat", with a control stick at one side, and the throtlles as well as other functional switches of the airliner (or fighter jet) on the other side - using the same high performance computer; with 3 screen you have a real "captains feeling".

Michael R. Gaab, M.D., Ph.D.,
Professor of Neurosurgery
Airline Transport Pilot

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I've had the seat for about a week now and spend quite a few hours in it both gaming and watching movies, working, etc. I absolutely love this thing. I got this seat over other flight sim cockpits because I wanted to use my current desk. I didn't want to give up my day to day computing activities/work station in place of a pure gaming center.

My desk sits a little high, so the stock height of the chair was a tad low, not too bad though, about the same height as my computer desk at its lowest stage. That being said, I threw some caster wheels on the bottom of the chair and it sits at the perfect height for my desk now, and rolls great. Prior to the wheels I had set it on a pair of 2x4's and zip tied it, but its quite heavy and sliding it got old. I picked the wheels up for $4 a piece at home depot and simply zip tied them to the bottom brace of the chair, they work wonderfully. They stay in place perfectly and now I can roll the chair in and out of my desk with ease.

The chair itself is really comfortable and has 4 different positions for lean on the backrest. I play with dual joysticks, so I don't use the middle pole, but I inserted it to test it out when I first got the chair and the fasteners/adjustments all work well and fit securely. The joystick mounts (side) are very adjustable for both height and horizontal distance from user. I've found the positioning very adequate in finding a comfortable position.

I have only one very minor critique on the chair itself. The screws that hold the joystick/throttle mounts on the side are a couple threads too short in my opinion. Makes it easy to strip the last few threads on the screw because that's whats holding it in (only reason I'm knocking a star there). This can be remedied by simply using thinner washers instead of the thick plastic ones provided or getting longer screws (if you so choose to do so, its not necessary, just a precaution).

Overall, I am really happy with my purchase and would recommend the chair to anyone looking for a sim chair/cockpit but wants to use their current desk or does not have the room for a full sim pit. Shipping was very fast (3 days from NL to Mid west US) Very happy customer. Thanks Playseat!!

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You won't find a better flight seat for the money. It is sturdy, versatile with plenty of room. It is so well suited you hardly notice it's there while you're battling it out. I would have preferred a mounting plate for the Thrustmaster Warthog that would allow the stick to be mounted on the middle arm. The supplied plate seemed to only work for side mounting. I made due by punching holes in the cover plate for the main middle plate, simple enough. The supplied plates, by the way, are awesome. Every inch of this equipment is tough and made to last.

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I looked into many other chairs and cockpits before deciding on the Playseat Air Force. I needed a chair that could replace my work/desk chair (I work as a Computer Engineer from home) and be a good chair for use with space/flight/racing simulators. Specifically I wanted a chair that could be used to mount controls on both sides (HOTAS) and a center mount for a yoke/stick/wheel. That is a lot to ask for. In the end, because of the versatility I needed, I opted for the Playseat Air Force which would do everything I needed and was quite a bit less than 1/3 the price of the competition (when including shipping costs). Assembly was very easy. The chair is comfortable even for sitting in it for 8 hours straight. The side mounts are adjustable (and easily-removed) and it can be used with pretty much any desk. Overall, I am very pleased with my purchase and I would recommend to anybody over its competition.

Pros: Price compared to competition.
High quality and comfortable even for long use.
One of the most versatile cockpit chairs.
Can be used as a desk chair. Very small footprint.
Adjustable control mounts.

Cons: It would be nice if it could recline further.
I would love it if the center mount could slide further
down when mounting a center flight stick.

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I'm using this chair for a couple of weeks and my overall experience is very positive.
Assembly was easy and the instructions were clear. The chair is very comfortable and the whole structure is very sturdy and that's a very good thing especially if you use pedals (that was my biggest issue with most of the mainstream gaming and office chairs). You can bend the back of the chair forward and that's a great feature since it can save you a lot of space.
The center mount is a nice add on but the problem is that creates a lot of space between you and the desk, making impossible, at least in my case, to reach k/b and mouse in my desk.
I have a tall desk and I wish there was a mechanism to adjust just a little bit the overall height of the chair. Not a big issue and probably I need some time to get use of my new position in front of my desk.
The biggest issue for me and thus the 4 stars are the side mounts. They are not particularly sturdy and the entire mounting mechanism bends a lot, especially if you move your stick sideways across the x axis. Probably the problem is not so profound if you use a "light" stick (x52, t16k) and the gameplay is not intense (MSFS), but with heavy sticks like Virpil WarBRD and combat/space sims with intense gameplay the issue is there and at least for me the experience is game breaking since it can mess up your inputs.
Overall it's a very nice product for the price tag and I recommend it especially for people with lack of space that are in search for "all in one" solution.

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Excellente chaise pour simulation de vol.

J'ai également acheté les glissières pour avancer et reculer le siège.
Les vis fournies, pour fixer le siège a sa base de sol, sont un peu trop longues et venaient bloquer le siège. Après avoir ajouté quelques rondelles tout est rentré dans l'ordre.

C'est un réel plaisir que de s'asseoir dans ce siège.

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I really like my Play Seat, it is much better than the roll around gaming chair. The materials are all metal which makes the seat very stable. I also bought the pad for it and I really like the pad. Very good quality and all the mounts were already drilled for my gear.