"Roy Smith" wrote in message
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I actually prefer a plain sweep second hand clock in the panel (one of
those good-old 8-day windup things work just fine). Glance at the
thing when you start outbound, when the second hand gets back to the
same place, turn inbound. Correct as required for wind.

Same here. In our old club PA-28 the clock was never, ever right because the
knob you set it with had long since fallen off. The second hand worked fine,
though, so when you went overhead the beacon you simply remembered what
number the second hand was pointing at and waited for it to point that way
again.

In our current aircraft, the clock is generally right. Same principle holds,
though :-)

D.