Are there any "pilot" watches that are actually helpful for pilots?

On Sat, 17 Nov 2007 14:46:31 +0000 (UTC), Bertie the Bunyip
wrote:

There's such a thing as an altimeter watch?

Useful for serious hikers. The altitude can help locate your
position on a topo map.

My little handheld Garmin 60cs GPS has a barometric altimeter and
magnetic compass to supplement the GPS position.

B A R R Y wrote in
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On Sat, 17 Nov 2007 14:46:31 +0000 (UTC), Bertie the Bunyip
wrote:

There's such a thing as an altimeter watch?

Useful for serious hikers. The altitude can help locate your
position on a topo map.

My little handheld Garmin 60cs GPS has a barometric altimeter and
magnetic compass to supplement the GPS position.


Hmmm, I've seen lightplane ones that have a GPS alt readoout. The other
would be handy for a loss of instrument situation, of course, but I never
use them in lightplane flying anyway.. Never even use a radio anymore if I
can get away with it!

Bertie

On Sun, 18 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0000 (UTC), Bertie the Bunyip
wrote:

Hmmm, I've seen lightplane ones that have a GPS alt readoout. The other
would be handy for a loss of instrument situation, of course, but I never
use them in lightplane flying anyway..

I usually use the altimeter in the GPS in "barometer" mode, for
weather. It graphically plots the change in pressure for a constant
altitude over time.

The magnetic compass is useful when not moving, as GPS doesn't choose
direction well if there is no movement.

B A R R Y wrote in
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On Sun, 18 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0000 (UTC), Bertie the Bunyip
wrote:

Hmmm, I've seen lightplane ones that have a GPS alt readoout. The
other would be handy for a loss of instrument situation, of course,
but I never use them in lightplane flying anyway..

I usually use the altimeter in the GPS in "barometer" mode, for
weather. It graphically plots the change in pressure for a constant
altitude over time.


Cool, there's a ood use for that, navigation wise. If you have n oher way
of telling which direction you'r going due to drift ( and obviously you do
if oyu have a GPS, but that's besdies the point) you can figure your drift
by the rathe the pressure is changing.

The magnetic compass is useful when not moving, as GPS doesn't choose
direction well if there is no movement.

Well, that'd be down to installation. Still, these guys were so far behind
the curve if they had GPS and still managed to hit a mountain that these
features would probably only add to their disorientation. I've seen pilots
get sucked into feeding the boxes to the extent that their situational
awareness was degraded rather than enhanced by the presence of the thing.
Don't know, of course that that is why this accident happend, but when
these gadgets get to be costing you more than they're saving you , it;'s
probably time to turn them off and get the hell out of there.


Bertie

On Sun, 18 Nov 2007 00:26:03 +0000 (UTC), Bertie the Bunyip
wrote:

Don't know, of course that that is why this accident happend, but when
these gadgets get to be costing you more than they're saving you , it;'s
probably time to turn them off and get the hell out of there.

Right on...

B A R R Y wrote in
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On Sun, 18 Nov 2007 00:26:03 +0000 (UTC), Bertie the Bunyip
wrote:

Don't know, of course that that is why this accident happend, but when
these gadgets get to be costing you more than they're saving you , it;'s
probably time to turn them off and get the hell out of there.

Right on...

And it's all getting worse!

I'm just getting invovled in instructing in lightplanes again. My mission?
To get the guys in my flying club and turn them into luddites. First thing
they're going to learn is to fly without anything but their oil pressure
and alitimeter..
Actually, I might cover the alt as well. .


Bertie

On Sun, 18 Nov 2007 00:32:04 +0000 (UTC), Bertie the Bunyip wrote:

I'm just getting invovled in instructing in lightplanes again. My mission?
To get the guys in my flying club and turn them into luddites. First thing
they're going to learn is to fly without anything but their oil pressure
and alitimeter..

Gosh, can't you give them an engine?
--
Remove numbers for gmail and for God's sake it ain't "gee" either!

Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
B A R R Y wrote in
:

On Sun, 18 Nov 2007 00:26:03 +0000 (UTC), Bertie the Bunyip
wrote:

Don't know, of course that that is why this accident happend, but when
these gadgets get to be costing you more than they're saving you , it;'s
probably time to turn them off and get the hell out of there.
Right on...

And it's all getting worse!

I'm just getting invovled in instructing in lightplanes again. My mission?
To get the guys in my flying club and turn them into luddites. First thing
they're going to learn is to fly without anything but their oil pressure
and alitimeter..
Actually, I might cover the alt as well. .

As I recall, they could use a tire gauge too...