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Old 22nd Oct 2007, 13:42
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pithblot
 
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Something simple

Hi Sternone,

I have a Lorus.

It cost about AUD19 and claims to be waterproof – but it possibly isn’t.
My Lorus keeps time very accurately, like all quartz watches, and it has a large luminous analogue display with a sweep second hand that I can easily read in a dark cockpit. My Lorus has nothing else: no multi function digital display, no compass, no altimeter, no GPS, no EPIRB, no rotating bezel, calculator or circular ‘sly drool’, not even a circadian rhythm analyzer.

I’ve been flying for over thirty years so I guess my Lorus is a ‘real pilot’s watch’. And in some places I’ve worked raskals & armed gangs target watches, wallets and jewelry and these folk are welcome to have my Lorus.

Besides, I was told early on in my career that a pilot’s skill/experience/ability is inversely proportional to the speed that she taxys and the size of his wristwatch.

Cheers!

Pithblot
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