simple IFR timers

"Judah" wrote in message
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Dan Truesdell wrote in news:40BBB5F8.1090404
@ceaPLsofAtwNarEe.cSom:

Unless I'm mistaken, I believe that you need to have an "official" clock
in the plane to fly actual. Doesn't mean that you have to use it, but I
believe it has to be there and has to be working. We are replacing ours
right now. (Seems like a silly reg.)

Why is that silly? Imagine... You're holding over your MAP point waiting
for your next opportunity to shoot. All of a sudden, the battery in your
watch decides to go out. What do you do then?

When I fly IFR, I wear two cheap digital watches that have large,
easy-to-read digits. I set one to be a clock, the other a stopwatch. If
either fails, the other is its backup.

--Gary