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Gerald Sylvester wrote:
Anyone know of a source of a simple timer for approaches? I had one years ago that was very simple. It was round with two buttons, one to start and stop the timer and another to reset it. All I can find now are the West Bend and others that have a lot more features than I need. Unfortunately, the yoke timer in the airplane is toast so I'm looking for something I can just velcro to the yoke or panel. I have the following: http://www.lcflight.com/timers.html and then this one. CON-5004 4 Channel Alarm/Clock Timer It is 4 channel but I only use #1 timer for enroute timing and then I have #4 setup ahead of time with the countdown time for the MAP. It is very easy to use. Count up and count down. I wish the thing had a light for night flying and I also wish the alarm was a little louder. time is set very easily just by pushing the H (hour), M (minute), S (Second) and then the C (Clear). I wish pilot would invent a truly great timer. amazing that you get a Garmin 530's, Avidynes, Autopilots, etc, but can't get a great timer. Gerald I agree. The Skylane I owned had, I believe, a Terra NavComm which had a timer built into the CDI display unit. It's been a few years, but I think you just toggled a switch to start the timer and this is what I used for approaches. The nice thing is that the timer was right up where you are looking during the approach so it was easy to keep track of. Matt |
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![]() I agree. The Skylane I owned had, I believe, a Terra NavComm which had a timer built into the CDI display unit. sarcasm on I can't recommend more this $12000 HSI with slaved timer. ;-) What you describe sounds ideal. Again, why can't manufacturers make this. They can put oscillators into all electrical equipment but god forbid they make a useful timer. Oh well..... Gerald |
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Matt,
I just stumbled into this thread and for some reason found in interesting. I have no personal endoresment, but West Bend appears to have a simple one. It appears that you can just press CLEAR and STOP/START to make it work. Try: http://www.westbend.com/westbend/cat...d=476&secid=8& linkon=subsection&linkid=82 or http://www.westbend.com/westbend/cat...2&linkon=subse ction John Bell |
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Indeed the West Bend basic timer is a model of simplicity. In 1985 I bought two
of them. I modified one of them for Rutan's Voyager as a fuel tank alarm device and put the other one in my 182. The one in the 182 has never been turned off nor has it had a battery change in almost 20 years. So far as I know, the one hanging in the Smithsonian is still ticking away as well. Jim "John Bell" shared these priceless pearls of wisdom: -Matt, - -I just stumbled into this thread and for some reason found in interesting. -I have no personal endoresment, but West Bend appears to have a simple one. -It appears that you can just press CLEAR and STOP/START to make it work. Jim Weir (A&P/IA, CFI, & other good alphabet soup) VP Eng RST Pres. Cyberchapter EAA Tech. Counselor http://www.rst-engr.com |
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Jim Weir wrote in
: Indeed the West Bend basic timer is a model of simplicity. In 1985 I bought two of them. I modified one of them for Rutan's Voyager as a fuel tank alarm device and put the other one in my 182. I don't actually have one of these, but I have read (on the internet, so it must be true!!) that these have a slight design flaw, and the timing depends on voltage, so as the battery goes down the timing slows down. -- Regards, Stan |
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"John Bell" wrote in message
om... Matt, I just stumbled into this thread and for some reason found in interesting. I have no personal endoresment, but West Bend appears to have a simple one. It appears that you can just press CLEAR and STOP/START to make it work. But that's not what I want, and unless I'm misunderstanding Matt that's not what he wants. The problem is that the most common (only?) "command" a pilot gives to a timer is "start counting up from zero now". For most stopwatches and timers, presumably all based on the same silicon, that takes 3 button pushes: Stop (if it's already counting, otherwise it goes to "lap" mode) Clear Start It may be that the West Bend one doesn't have a "lap" mode so requires only two pushes. What I want is something that emulates the timer on a KR87 ADF -- *one* press and it starts up from zero again. Julian Scarfe |
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