Aviation Watches

Buy a cheap one and complain to everyone you know how crappy it is. Then
get someone to buy you a nice watch for x-mas or your birthday. Worked for
me. My Brother bought me a Breitling.

"BoDEAN" wrote in message
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Suggestions?

A few cfi's i know have the citizen one, that is like 300 bucks.
They like it, but it's bulky

In flight the E6 on a watch would be pretty useless. Stick with a good old
regular one or an electronic one. I do have a Citizen Navihawk Blue Angels
and like it. The benefits I see from it are the 24 hour dial at glance but
that's easy anyway. The UTC dial is handy. I use the stopwatch more than
anything else while flying. But there are watches out there that can do
that for a lot less money. I had a Chase Durer but couldn't read the tiny
numbers on the damned thing!

Chris
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"BoDEAN" wrote in message
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Would like to be able to easily computer time/speed/distance
and have zulu available

On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 03:30:48 GMT, "John Gaquin"
wrote:


"BoDEAN" wrote in message
Suggestions?

A few cfi's i know have the citizen one, that is like 300 bucks.
They like it, but it's bulky


What do you need other than accurate time?

"BoDEAN" wrote in message

Would like to be able to easily computer time/speed/distance
and have zulu available

With a little practice, time/speed/distance can easily be done mentally, and
it is safer than futzing around with your watch dial while you're supposed
to be flying. :-)

I doubt you're going to be changing time zones often or fast enough to need
a reminder about zulu. I never encountered a problem with that.

I still wear a Timex for which I paid $12 in 1980. It has a date function I
occasionally use. Very accurate, and it won't make you a target in some
third world backwater.

Regards,

John Gaquin
B727, B747

Roger

Do you think WD-40 would help?

Or have you tried silicon in a spray can?

I've used both to make things work.

Big John


On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 13:13:44 GMT, "Roger Tracy"
wrote:

I have had the same experience with the Navihawk. The function button
sticking. You have to get your finger nails under it and pull it back out.
Maybe
I should try having it cleaned. I like the watch because it had two biggies
I wanted. Zulu in the digital window .. and the E6B on it.



"John Ousterhout"
wrote in message ...
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 20:47:34 -0500, BoDEAN
wrote:

Suggestions?

A few cfi's i know have the citizen one, that is like 300 bucks.
They like it, but it's bulky

I received a Citizen Navihawk as a gift about six years ago. It looks
impressive. Having Zulu time in the digital window and local time on
the analog face is convenient. The alarms are nice but not loud
enough to hear in a cockpit. I had to have it cleaned after one year
because the main function button quit working. The same thing
happened in another year. And a year later it happened again and
couldn't be fixed so Citizen gave me a new watch under warranty. The
same thing happened with the new watch. I would not buy another
Citizen.

Previously I had two Casio $39 watches that lasted about six to eight
years each with no service except for new batteries,

- John Ousterhout -

One night at a hotel where many airline crews overnighted a captain
had to pee, and slightly drunk, opened the door to the hallway instead
of the bathroom and locked himslef out of his room. Naked, and in
panic he knocked on the room next door.

The Flight Attendent in that room looked through the peephole and
seeing the naked man, picked up the telephone and called the front
desk, "There's a naked man outside my door" she cried.

"Does he have a little dick and a big watch?" asked the front desk.

"Why yes" the Flight Attendent answered.

"It's just a pilot" relied the front desk.

Citizen Navihawk Blue Angels, Air Boss, FA-18, Suunto Observer with
Altitude ,VSI and flux gate compass? Some of you blokes must fly
Curtiss pushers or similar with no Aircraft instruments.

The ole Tandy dual timer stuck next to the fuel gauge with double sided
tape works for me, if you want to time approach's you have a second
timer. Nice big buttons to hit when bouncing around and a time check is
just a push of a button. When out of the Aircraft a Seiko Micky Mouse
keeps good time. Who wants to know what time some obscure native tribe
works on?


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I wear a Vibralite--I think Sporty's and/or King has them in their
catalogs. Try a search.

Digital, dual time zones, dual alarms, countdown timer. Has a vibrating
mode. When IFR, I set the countdown time for 15 minutes (it repeats
automatically) and it reminds me to check the DG.

Dave Reinhart


BoDEAN wrote:

Suggestions?

A few cfi's i know have the citizen one, that is like 300 bucks.
They like it, but it's bulky

Forgot to mention. The backlighting can be set so it comes on with a quick
turn of the wrist, no button pushing necessary.

David Reinhart wrote:

I wear a Vibralite--I think Sporty's and/or King has them in their
catalogs. Try a search.

Digital, dual time zones, dual alarms, countdown timer. Has a vibrating
mode. When IFR, I set the countdown time for 15 minutes (it repeats
automatically) and it reminds me to check the DG.

Dave Reinhart


BoDEAN wrote:

Suggestions?

A few cfi's i know have the citizen one, that is like 300 bucks.
They like it, but it's bulky

"studentpilot" wrote in
message ...

Citizen Navihawk Blue Angels, Air Boss, FA-18, Suunto Observer with
Altitude ,VSI and flux gate compass? Some of you blokes must fly
Curtiss pushers or similar with no Aircraft instruments.

The ole Tandy dual timer stuck next to the fuel gauge with double sided
tape works for me, if you want to time approach's you have a second
timer. Nice big buttons to hit when bouncing around and a time check is
just a push of a button.

Oven timers are the best kept secret in aviation.


When out of the Aircraft a Seiko Micky Mouse
keeps good time. Who wants to know what time some obscure native tribe
works on?


--
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fly -

"Teacherjh" wrote in message
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|
| Sweep second hands are better than digital. In fact, digital watches are
| inferior in most respects.
|
|
| Why? Timing an approach with digital, I start the timer and wait for 3:18
to
| show up. Timing it analog I have to count and remember the number of
times the
| second hand went around, or remember which little tic mark the minute hand
was
| on. Digital is drop dead simpler.
|
|
| You can use a dial watch to determine direction
| and estimate distances.
|
|
| how?

Were you never a Boy Scout? :-)

To measure distance, you can use a dial watch as a crude sextant to get an
idea of, say, how wide a river is.

Watch method. You can also determine the direction using a watch. The steps
you take will depend on whether you are in the northern temperate zone or in
the southern temperate zone (and whether you have a conventional or digital
watch). The northern temperate zone is located between 23.4o north and 66.6o
north. The southern temperate zone is located between 23.4o south and 66.6o
south.

Northern Temperate Zone (conventional watch)
1.. Place a small stick in the ground so that it casts a definite shadow.
2.. Place your watch on the ground sot that the hour hand points toward
and along the shadow of the stick.
3.. Find the point on the watch midway between the hour hand and 12
o'clock and draw an imaginary line from that point through and beyond the
center of the watch. This imaginary line is a north-south line.
NOTE: If your watch is set on daylight savings time, then use the midway
point between the hour hand and 1 o'clock to draw your imaginary line.

If you carry a digital watch, simply draw a conventional watch face on the
ground with the hands indicating the proper time (as shown on your digital
watch) - following the same steps as listed above.

you can use a dial watch as a crude sextant

Wow, how cool is that! I knew I shouldn't have dropped out of girl scouts so
early...even though my main interest at the time was Boy Scouts. :-)