Volair SimUniversal Flight or Racing Simulation Cockpit Chassis with Triple Monitor Mounts

I spent a great deal of time researching Racing Cockpit and choose the Volair sim chair for all the features that are optional on other cockpits. I watched Volairs' online video's and was impressed with the amount of adjustments that can be made so that you are sitting comfortably. I received the chair in 4 days with everything in good condition.The seat is areal car seat fully adjustable, sliding easily on it tracks. The keyboard tray is a great feature, you can place it right in front of yourself and move it out of the way when not in use. I can go on and on.... The main item when comparing cockpit, how well they are built including the materiels used. They used thick walled square and round tubing no cheap stuff used. I am using a three 27 inch monitor setup. The monitor are very secure with no movement! I did have a question a question and customer support was outstanding. I am setup for racing and will switch over to aviation setup in a month or two and I believe the cockpit will be even more impressive, look where you can put all of your gadgets. J

The photo does not give a good and honest depiction of this simulator. It's too low for flight sim. They have a three inches seat riser but it's additional cost. No arm rest; available but additional cost. It's just about getting your money. To return you will loose 20 percent for restocking fee plus you pay for the returned shipment; cost me over $400 to return it; Amazon will not help as they claim it's a third party items; the little refund takes weeks to come back to you. Please be careful gamers.

Let me start by saying that the product is good and I would buy another one. Also Volair's customer support is top notch and very responsive. With regard to the product, I think there are some things that are worth reemphasizing that I think are fair criticisms of this type of enthusiast product. I will also caveat that I haven't tried any other competitors, so maybe this is just state of the art and so be it... but I would like to see these things addressed if there's ever a "Volair Sim 2"My chief complaint is that I think this sim rig was designed for flight first, and the fact that it happens to work for racing is just a happy accident. The reason I say this is because the mounting point for the wheel is not terribly well reinforced, it has quite a bit of flex in it. I think it will probably never break, but the constant flexing with force feedback is not what I was hoping for. Other bolt on doodads are better but do have a tiny wiggle unless very heavily tightened, so something like a Fantatec Shifter you'll get a little bit of play in it. I think this would be completely fine on a flight sim where for the most part you are being gentle, but competition sim racing can be a violent exercise and I can tell I'm going to be rattling this thing all the time.Additionally, the adjustment options for the placement of the wheel are somewhat limited. "Closer and Higher" or "Lower and Farther away" are your options. I know a lot of drivers like a close and low wheel, right on the chest, and frankly that's just not possible with this thing unless you are a very specific body dimension (I'm 5'11" and slim). Or possibly just different pedals that sit higher up so you can scoot in closer. With G27 I have to make the choice between perfect wheel and perfect pedal placement. I've tried to split the difference.Finally, the assembly for this thing is a task. All the other reviews are accurate. You can expect to spend 5-8 hours on this thing, and learn a lot of lessons along the way. The instructions are a little hard to follow and some steps like attaching the seat to the chassis are a downright menace. My most important tool in this assembly was a rubber mallet, because some stuff you just have to beat into place.Other notes (not all negative, I promise!)- UPDATE: this comes pre-drilled for the X52 Pro. Very nice to have. I think it even bolts to the center-stick, which means you can have the HOTAS on center and left side, with the racing shifter on the right. Perfect!- The website claims you need M6 x 10 machine screws to mount the G27 pedals, but those are far too short. Get longer ones and thank me later. I used M6x16 and those seemed to do well.- The triple monitor mounting is very good. Sturdy, quality, easy.- The seat on this thing is really nice. Frankly it's worth an entire star on its own. It feels very high quality and once you get all your positions worked out it can be very comfortable

I was initially nervous about spending the money on this setup. But once I received the unit I became impressed with the steel construction and build quality. Drill holes and mounting surfaces lined up nicely and I was able to assemble the entire unit myself without any extra hands. I ended up mounting 3 34" 1080p Sharp HDTVs on the system. Quite large and heavy and the chassis holds the weight like a champ. It does not flex or wobble at all. It's like climbing in to a tank. Even with jerky and aggressive inputs on my HOTAS system the unit never flexes or moves... Can't say enough good things about this purchase.A few things to consider:-I'm not sure that I would be able to successfully mount anything larger than the 3 34" screens. It seemed to be kind of reaching the upper limits of the size of screen that the unit would handle... but I could be wrong about that.-I'm not a super tall guy. 5'8" And I feel like I want another inch or two of adjustment on the seat to get me just a little bit closer to the keyboard tray. Still not a deal breaker and the mounting plates for the HOTAS system are completely adjustable so no problems there.