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Old 7th October 2001 | 10:11
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chips_with_everything
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From: Faulconbridge, New South Wales, Oz
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Why a fancy watch??

I use a cheap-as-chips timex, which puts UTC in the digital readout and has luminous hands for normal use.

There's a light you can just about read a map with.

Best part is the outside is a compass ring you can set to magnetic north. This makes the navigation part of diversions so brain dead simple I wonder why I bother with planning flights in the first place.

All for around $90.

ADEC made a slightly flashier one just as ideal for piloting too, which I owned until one AVGAS drenching too many killed it.
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