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Old 5th Aug 2015, 19:54
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Keef

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I've got a drawer full of watches Sad, me. I decided I have an analogue brain, so digital watches don't do it for me. I particularly like my KGB Officer's automatic bombproof "special".

I sold the Breitling - it never worked right anyway, and surprisingly I got a good price for it.

Nowadays I wear a simple Seiko with a nice, clear display and (slightly) luminous hands. There is a stop watch function in it, but waving a magnifying glass in front of the watch while flying in cloud doesn't instil confidence in passengers.

For instrument approaches, I have a very old wind-up sports-teacher-type Smiths stopwatch and a mount that hooks it to the yoke. I use it for IFR flight and for IMCR and IR tests. It has the advantage that the examiner can see it, too.

There was a clock on the panel of the Arrow, but it decided each day whether it would work or not, so I planned on "not".
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