Jet Tent Pilot Chair DLX

I wanted to love this chair. I really did. I’ve tried all sorts of camp chairs and was finally willing to dump some cash on a well-built chair with lower back support. To put things in perspective, I’m a full-figured 5’8” 240 pound female. When I saw that this chair could handle 330 pounds, had an adjustable back support to customize the fit, had flat, padded, adjustable arm rests, had an add-on table attachment available in December, and was stored in a zippered bag and not one of those ridiculous draw string bags where the string ALWAYS gets caught around the legs when you’re putting it away, I was hopping up and down with excitement and checking the tracking daily. So, the chair finally arrives and gets set up in the living room. The construction is incredible. It’s one very sturdy chair that looks like it can take a lot of weight. Bonus is that everything is replaceable so if something would break, you can get a replacement part instead of having to purchase a whole new chair. I’m ecstatic over this chair at this point. I feel like I need a movie soundtrack playing as I lower myself into this amazing chair. But dang! I think this is the most uncomfortable chair ever to grace my backside! The lumbar support I was drooling over and the weight limit I was almost 100 pounds under mean nothing if you can’t actually get your butt into the chair. Let me explain. “Larger” people, women especially, tend to carry their weight in their backsides. The way the lumbar straps on the chair work makes the chair into a trapezoid with the long part across the front and sides that ANGLE to the shorter back. Well, my butt isn’t shaped that way. My backside is pretty much a square. In order to fit, I had to put the angled lumbar straps over my side thigh/butt flab so it was sticking out the sides underneath. If that wasn’t discouraging enough, my husband finally made his way downstairs to see my “awesome” new chair and did a double take on the stairs when he saw me in it. “You don’t look comfortable,” he said cautiously. “No! No, I’m not. Half my butt is hanging out the sides under these straps,” I grumbled. “Yeah, that’s not an attractive look at all,” he laughed. So, my fancy new chair is a total bust. It not only doesn’t fit, but even my “never say anything to the wife about size/weight” husband couldn’t contain the fact that I looked ridiculous. After prying myself out, I made him sit in it as he’s my height but a few pounds lighter. Due to the fact that his weight is concentrated in the front, he was able to fit in the seat and did like the back support. So, bottom line, the chair is very well made, has adjustable lumbar support and arm rests, has a great storage bag, and totally replaceable parts. While I can highly recommend it for “regular” sized people and/or people whose weight is carried in the front, I cannot recommend this chair for those of us who “carry their junk in the trunk” so to say. For that, I’m docking a star. I’d post pictures, but I really don’t want to cram myself into that chair ever again.