Timeline for Do pilots really wear "pilot's watches"?
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| Oct 27, 2017 at 10:19 | comment | added | Caterpillaraoz | I have a pilot watch (citizen promaster) and the only feature I routinely use (not being a fan on electronics navigational aids) is the calculator ruler, it comes very handy to do glide ratio calculations on, well, gliders. | |
| Mar 7, 2017 at 20:53 | comment | added | jamesqf | FWIW, in the going on 40 years that I've held a (private) pilot's licence, I've never worn a watch. | |
| Mar 7, 2017 at 15:52 | comment | added | GdD | @JScarry, I don't think the garmin watches were out when this question was asked, which was Sept 2015 | |
| Mar 7, 2017 at 15:03 | comment | added | JScarry | @reirab Garmin already makes several pilot watches. I can’t imagine it being very useful, but someone must have thought so. mypilotstore.com/MyPilotStore/sep/10546 | |
| Oct 18, 2016 at 5:53 | comment | added | computingfreak | I am buying a Casio G-Shock right away, i knew since childhood, that it is the most versatile watch ever made, fit for all professions. | |
| Sep 21, 2015 at 7:39 | comment | added | GdD | The biggest concern for me in designing a pilot watch app would be making it do too much. A few simple, easy to use functions would not be distracting and would be better for head-up behavior. High technology can be distracting. | |
| Sep 20, 2015 at 22:06 | comment | added | Eric Lippert | "Chocolate teapot" is totally replacing my go to expression "as useful as a bag full of rubber hammers". | |
| Sep 17, 2015 at 15:44 | comment | added | reirab | @GdD I suppose you could just make an Android Wear app. Android Wear watches are quite literally wrist computers. You could even make set it up to program your route in ahead of time on your phone and have it show you the heading of the next turn and count down to when you should begin it, etc. Google Maps already does that for driving (except that, by default, it counts down distance to next turn rather than time.) | |
| Sep 17, 2015 at 15:22 | comment | added | Pondlife | Years ago, I took off in a C152 with an examiner to do my night rating flight test and discovered that the timer in the aircraft was broken (poor pre-flight, I know). Fortunately, I wear a Breitling Navitimer and I used it for doing my timed turns. It works very well for that and I even used it later for the same purpose during my IR checkride. I don't think it's the best option for real IFR operations, but it's absolutely fine in a pinch. | |
| Sep 17, 2015 at 15:22 | comment | added | GdD | I think the reason that there's not a better true pilot watch is that the market is too small. What you don't need is a watch, what you need is a wrist computer. I was thinking of writing an android app which would run on an old mobile phone you could strap onto your wrist. It's a lot of work though, and as my experience with my BB Density Altitude app showed it's hard to make a profit of these things. | |
| Sep 17, 2015 at 15:19 | comment | added | GdD | It is a britishism @DanielGriscom. It's one of my favorites I've picked up living in the UK the past few years. | |
| Sep 17, 2015 at 14:56 | comment | added | Daniel Griscom | Just saw that. I guess that's a Britishism; I haven't heard it before in the States. | |
| Sep 17, 2015 at 14:49 | comment | added | Ben Hocking | @DanielGriscom: bbc.com/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-29126161 | |
| Sep 17, 2015 at 14:42 | comment | added | Daniel Griscom | I want a chocolate tea pot! | |
| Sep 17, 2015 at 8:17 | history | answered | GdD | CC BY-SA 3.0 |