Best Pilot Watch for $100?

You are the only one who needs to know you're a pilot!!

We have a friend who wears flying gloves and flying boots to drive his
172!


Husband puts his suit coat in the back of the M20.

Wonder what MX wears when he uses his sim?

On Nov 11, 6:31 pm, Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
Jay Honeck wrote in news:1194789941.276600.29240
@o38g2000hse.googlegroups.com:

My trusty Timex Expedition has finally died, after years of faithful
service. Although it had many features I liked, it was missing a few
things that would be nice in the plane. (Zulu time, for example.)

What's the group-think on this? What watch do you wear/recommend?
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I wear a relatively cheap Seiko and leave it on GMT all the time.

At home I don't wear a watch and everyone already knows I 'm a pilot.

Bertie

Tina wrote:
You are the only one who needs to know you're a pilot!!

We have a friend who wears flying gloves and flying boots to drive his
172!


Husband puts his suit coat in the back of the M20.

Wonder what MX wears when he uses his sim?

Now you've done it.

Expect another gout of obscene speculative
pictures of MX sitting at his computer...

Jim Stewart wrote in
:

Tina wrote:
You are the only one who needs to know you're a pilot!!

We have a friend who wears flying gloves and flying boots to drive his
172!


Husband puts his suit coat in the back of the M20.

Wonder what MX wears when he uses his sim?

Now you've done it.

Expect another gout of obscene speculative
pictures of MX sitting at his computer...


I've already seen it in my head. I'm now trying to poke out my inner eye
with a fork.

Bertie

Tina wrote in news:1194915238.050815.280260@
50g2000hsm.googlegroups.com:

You are the only one who needs to know you're a pilot!!


Xactly.





We have a friend who wears flying gloves and flying boots to drive his
172!


Ugh.



Husband puts his suit coat in the back of the M20.

Wonder what MX wears when he uses his sim?


Lets not go there.

I've often seen guys wearing white shirts and bars in the land of style
over substance known as the United Kingdom. I nearly broke my ass
laughing the first time I saw that.


One of my favorite stories of all time is that of a young Gregory Peck,
out with his entourage at the Brown Derby or some similar Hollywood spot
shortly after his first big splash. A snotty Maitre 'd informed him as
he arrived that there would be a wait and that they should go to the bar
until they were called. One of his buddies stepped up and said "excuuuse
mel but do you know who this is? ". Gregory pulled him aside and
whispered to him "If ya gotta tell 'em who you are, ya ain't"



Bertie

I recently replaced my three-year-old Timex Ironman "midsize" at
Campmor for $14.95. (Okay, twenty bucks with shipping.)

This is my third iteration of this watch. It began as a Youth watch,
but evidently boys will no longer buy things called Youth. (I have
skinny wrists.) I figured it was overdue for a battery and a band, and
it was cheaper to buy new than to update.

It has two time zones, 24 hour option, and easy to read figures. What
else does a pilot need?

(It also has an alarm, but I now use my cellphone for that. More and
more, I'm told, the children no longer wear wris****ches, but instead
rely on their phones for that information.)


On Sun, 11 Nov 2007 06:05:41 -0800, Jay Honeck
wrote:

My trusty Timex Expedition has finally died, after years of faithful
service. Although it had many features I liked, it was missing a few
things that would be nice in the plane. (Zulu time, for example.)

What's the group-think on this? What watch do you wear/recommend?

Blue skies! -- Dan Ford

Claire Chennault and His American Volunteers, 1941-1942
new from HarperCollins www.FlyingTigersBook.com

What watch do you wear/recommend?

Heck, Jay, if you can add and subtract the number six, you don't need
zulu time. (If not, use the fingers on one hand and the thumb on the
other.)

I'm trying to recall if you fly ifr. If you do, dependable accuracy is
the most important quality, IMHO, so your time always corresponds to
ATC's time. Taking off one minute after your clearance expires is a no-no.

Being easy to read at night is important if you fly at night.

Bells and whistles are not really necessary but a stopwatch feature is a
luxury for timing approaches. Easier to use than the clock on the panel.

About five yeas ago I bought a Pulsar, a low-priced Seiko, for about
$60, from Heartland America. It keeps time to within two or three
seconds a month.

vince norris

Vincent,

Easier to use than the clock on the panel.


That statement caught my eye. I found the stop watches on the miniature
dials MUCH harder to use than anything on the panel, including the
timer in the ADF. How do you get around that problem? Young eyes?

--
Thomas Borchert (EDDH)