Best Pilot Watch for $100?

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

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

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

I received a considerable bit of jocular harassment from some friends
for purchasing a rather large digital watch for flying. I have an
"aviation" style analog watch that just wasn't doing anything for me.

I couldn't be happier with the digital choice... Press a button to
switch between 12 & 24 hour time, press another button once for Zulu
time, a second time for a stop watch, a third time for a programmable
count down timer (it's my fuel timer) and in a dark cockpit, press
another button and the display lights up brightly for 4 seconds.

I consider it a tool, not a fashion statement.

Yeah, I saw it.. Great for building up the biceps too, just have to
alternate wrists on a long flight!!

nuk nuk nuk

On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 12:56:18 -0600, ManhattanMan wrote:

Yeah, I saw it.. Great for building up the biceps too, just have to
alternate wrists on a long flight!! nuk nuk nuk

Et tu, Brute?


--
Dallas

Dallas wrote:
On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 12:56:18 -0600, ManhattanMan wrote:

Yeah, I saw it.. Great for building up the biceps too, just have to
alternate wrists on a long flight!! nuk nuk nuk

Et tu, Brute?

Naw, I alredy et, tanks.........

Jay Honeck wrote:
I really like the Expedition. However, one problem with it is that
if you set the dual time (digital) to Zulu time, the date changes in
conjunction with Zulu time. That's a PIA...
It's supposed to!
You're using Zulu time!
Right! The date applies to the time zone in use.

Understood -- but it still sucks...
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Hmmm, I don't understand. I have an Expedition and set the 2nd timezone
to zulu time. Primary time is set to PST/PDT as appropriate and the
date changes according to this. Maybe it's an Iowa thing? :-)


--
Jack Allison
PP-ASEL-Instrument Airplane

"To become a Jedi knight, you must master a single force. To become
a private pilot you must strive to master four of them"
- Rod Machado

(Remove the obvious from address to reply via e-mail)

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)