NLR Boeing Military Edition Flight Seat - First Impressions
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- čas přidán 18. 12. 2022
- In this video, I talk about my first impressions after putting the Next Level Racing Boeing Military Edition seat together. I refer to the throttle side and stick side incorrectly a couple of times, but you guys get the point I think. Next step is to take down my current desk setup and move the sim seat up to my man cave office next to the media room. There I'll go through the estimations on the placement of all HOTAS and Flight Peripherals and adjust my keyboard position and seat tilt to see my monitor better.
Dimensions: Excluding overhead height, the general footprint is 60 inches (5 Ft) front to back with the seat at a comfortable tilt for me. In fact, the headrest doesn't extent past the rear feet. With both plates I have set on each side for HOTAS, it will fit in a 40 inch wide space. 60" x 40" roughly. ~Juice
If anyone has a question or need a measurement on this seat, drop me a comment below and I'll try to answer within a day or so.
Stay in touch, Juice. - Hry
Hey Juice, a measurement of the footprint of this thing would be great. I want to see how much space I need to free up to fit it in my office
Roger that, excluding overhead height, the general footprint is 60 inches (5 Ft) front to back with the seat at a comfortable tilt for me. In fact, the headrest doesn't extent past the rear feet. With both plates I have set on each side for HOTAS, it will fit in a 40 inch wide space. 60" x 40" roughly. ~Juice
@@AIRWARFAREGROUP thanks. I'll be taking measurements this evening
My sim room is 9 feet by 12 feet and 8 feet tall. Check out the pictures in our community tab on CZcams. ~J
Always helpful brother. You are the best thank you 🙏🏼
Sent the order in for mine earlier today. should be up and running by next week. Happy Holidays to you and yours!
Share pictures!!
@@AIRWARFAREGROUP Absolutely! and I am enjoying the review videos so far. I made up my mind to get one with Mooch's review but it's nice to see you having some holiday fun!
Great video juice looks awesome
I appreciate it JAR...HAPPY NEW YEAR. In Australia, it's already 2023 right? You guys are ahead ;^)
Looking forward to the next movie...J
Thanks for explaining the center stick
I've seen this adapted in other videos but it never applied to me.
Yupp that looks nice. Definitely will get one in the future.
I'm happy with it so far...I think it's done well and should improve with time. ~J
great video
Thanks! I’m away until October 1 and will have to check with NLR on the status. Check out the website.
Awesome chair!
It’s growing on me. I cut up the old uncomfortable duct-taped chair I used for 8 years.
Juice, great video, I too have the seat and as I put in my review best all in on solution right now for the price. Could be better, I lowered my center bar to run my center stick and it's still too high to put my extension on, and I do have to slide more forward. The keyboard is on the right side feels good, I had it on the center for a short period of time. What i love the most is all the adjustability the rig offers. Keep the straps off, they do look cool, but just get in the way after awhile and you will not use them more than once. LOL
Great stuff...we should compare notes next month and send feedback to NLR when they get back from the holidays...They want our input...contact me via Viper Crew Discord sir...Cheers, ~Juice
thanks for vid
You bet...and integrity is something I value in my own reviews. Check out the playlists and I have a few on recent observations of this chair after having it over a year. It's not for everyone, but If I hadn't received this for free to review, and they let me test drive it, I'd say it's worth $800 for what you get. The only drawback is I didn't need about $200 worth of the stuff that is included. For that reason, I recommend people check out the Flight Seat Pro. It's great for people using their desk/monitor stand and have a solution for pedals or don't use pedals at all. nextlevelracing.com/products/flight-seat-pro/
This is cool but the monster tech one is much more adjustable and modular. This is missing front adapatrs to mount mfds and take off panels. Hopefully they work on that for the V2
The MTS pit is also around $2000, or well over that depending on options you choose. If you want the Mts Blackbird seat with the MTS pit you will spend closer to (or over) $3000. Also, it can take 5 months or longer to receive it if you want the seat.
For the price, the NLR is an extremely good value, at around 1/4 the price and a few days wait vs close to half a year.
Sweet!
Moving it to the maintenance hanger tomorrow morning and then hopefully a test flight in the afternoon.
Hey great video!! I ordered one of these and it’s on the way! Could you measure the width of pedal plate including the frame ? Wondering how wide it is up front!! Thank you sir!!
Sure thing, the pedal plate is 15.5 inches wide and the frame is 19.0 inches wide.
Thank you sooo much!!!!
Hey, very interested to buy but have your same reservations about a center stick with extension mounting. Has Juice found a good solution that can be shared?
Hey there, yes it is very flexible, not perfect or all encompassing, but here’s one solution I found with a simple Google or CZcams search the other day. czcams.com/video/i1cJLdhIaMw/video.html
How comfortable is the seat for extended flights. I currently am using a driver's seat out of a Toyota. This looks cool but the padding looks to be on the thin side and I wonder about the comfort.
I’ll let you know in three days! ~Juice
it is, i just got a memory foam pillow i sit on and it works fine. what can you do can't have everything..
Do you think its possible to mount some standard armrests? Like the ones you can buy for gaming chairs. I can't find any next level racing armrests dedicated to this system. My rig will arrive in a few days :)
I think it’s doable!!!
@@AIRWARFAREGROUP thank you very much, ill figure something out!
I'll be doing the same with mine, getting the 4D ones on Amazon for $49
@@Macky4941 I found 4D ones for the DXRacer, but they cost 79€.. that's an outrage ;) let me know how things turned out for you!
My biggest question is how is the framework for the seat? Other models used fiber glass. How is this one looking is it metal to metal, metal to wood, or metal to fiberglass?
I was just modifying it today, and can say, it's solid...all metal construction with beefy attachments. I'm 6'1" and 220 lbs. I'm handing this unit down to my Grandson when I retire from DCS someday. ~Grandpa Juice
any updates on the center stick solution that's too high
Thanks! I’m away until October 1 and will have to check with NLR on the status. Check out the website.
I fly helos with a curved extension pole, I don't see a great way to mount my base on this setup without rigging something.
A curved halo stick might be perfect for the option of moving the crossbar under the seat in the front down diagonally towards the foot part.
There was a video online with the seat setup of helios, i remember it looking good but can't find it. The rig handle was set up on the left side not the center, sorry i can't find the video again.
How easy would it be to swap throttles? Say I alternate between a win wing f-16 and my warthog?
Easy Peezy! 😉 but if you want to just pop one off and put another one on in two seconds, it’s really not designed for that. There are so many holes on the Throttle and stick plates that they will accommodate probably any hardware available for flight simulations.
@@AIRWARFAREGROUP yeah I’d like to be a little modular. That way I can change things on the fly.
i see it from here... my ass gonna hurt after the 2 hours session, or my back, good looking though, but still i find it expensive, dont get me wrong your video is excellent
All good, I get ya. If it starts hurting my butt, I’ll push a little bit of negative G to get some relief. The sad part of gaming and flying/driving sims is that humans aren’t supposed to sit for too long at a spell because of circulation problems. They say sitting is the new smoking for health impacts. I’m not sure if I’ve ever sat more than 2.5 hours in a sortie. I have this other chair that is really comfortable and my wife wants me to get rid of it. Maybe I’ll post a picture of it in Community tab. Happy New Years to you and yours. ~Juice
Does the center mount support VKB sticks?
It should, there are lots of Holes...and it wouldn't be hard to put a small piece of wood shim to attach it to. ~J
@@AIRWARFAREGROUP Thx!
Was wondering if you can tell me what is the max and min height of the seat ?
Are you talking about the height of the seat cushion and the height on top?
@@AIRWARFAREGROUP the seat cushion. Thanks :)
So the seat part is slightly tilted upward at the front and 17” (43.2 CM) and the rear part where the buttocks sits is 16” (40.6 CM). The adjustable feet on the bottom allow you to raise it up about an inch (2.54 CM). Hoping that this helps.
@@AIRWARFAREGROUP greatly.
How wide is the seat cushion, looks awfully narrow somehow.
16 inches or 406 mm wide. I’m 6 foot one 220 pounds and size 36 waist and it fits me like a fighter jet. No uncomfortable feeling so far.
@@AIRWARFAREGROUP Thanks for the reply! Sounds a bit too narrow for me
Custom design is the best perhaps. 😉
@@AIRWARFAREGROUP True, on it!
Thank you for the video. I was looking at this seat, but I have a big booty. I am a heavy dude, and heavy duty chairs are a challenge. I may still buy this rig, and swap out the seat.
Agreed, not a fit for everyone...stay safe in 2023...J
Hmmm. I have about 20' of 1" box tubing, a half sheet of 3/16" plate and a full sheet of 18 gauge sheet metal, and a spare bucket seat. I feel like I could totally weld it together in an afternoon and it would be functionally exactly the same. And not cost me a dime. LOL
That's a great idea!
Where can I get all that scrap metal and a welder for less than a dime!? 😂
@@Macky4941 You gotta be thrifty. A lot of the scrap steel that I have was found dumpster diving behind stores and asking construction sites for scrap. As far as the welder goes, I've had it for about twenty years and I paid $300 for it back then. Still cheaper than an $800 sim pit. Even if I went out today and purchased all the steel needed for this thing. I would be in it for about a $100. Sooooo. Oh and the bucket seat came out of a Fiero that I scrapped 15 years ago.
Too bad you can't purchase the seat separately.
That’s a popular opinion and I am going to bring it up with them in a video call next week.
why seat belts?
really
For whenever the wife hits me and I don’t fall off the seat. “TURBULENCE”
@@AIRWARFAREGROUP no it's so the wife can't drag you out when you've been flying too long 😂🤣
I think the chair is designed in a way so that it can also be mounted on a motion platform. Seatbelts ensure that you dont fall off.
Can confirm the seat is not for 250+ sized people
Thanks for sharing. Get the Lazy Bouy version.
No way am I paying 800 bucks for a seat.
Would be nice to see what we have to compare it with
yeah man pretty much what it is and looks cheap made too not worth the price
@@jahgenetics3315 Its actually quite well made.