Watches With heading & alt

[Samurai34]

What watch you guys rocking? I'm looking at a Garmen Barvo D2, I like the heading & alt features, any other watches you may suggest?

[Check Airman]

How accurate do you need it to be? Casio has a nice variety in their Pro-Trek series.

[Kiwiconehead]

I have a Pro-trek - alt is handy as a gross error check when I am doing transponder tests.

[Samurai34]

Originally Posted by Check Airman

How accurate do you need it to be? Casio has a nice variety in their Pro-Trek series.

Not super, but still good to be close. I have a look, thanks!

[drpixie]

Don't care as long as it matches my PILOT sunnies and my PILOT shoes.

[Samurai34]

Originally Posted by drpixie

Don't care as long as it matches my PILOT sunnies and my PILOT shoes.

Lol, I'm the only guy at my base without black leather shoes.....but I still want a useful watch

[Arm out the window]

They put altimeters and compasses in aircraft these days, so the Casio $20 special for telling the time is probably adequate!

[Samurai34]

Originally Posted by Arm out the window

They put altimeters and compasses in aircraft these days, so the Casio $20 special for telling the time is probably adequate!

True, but down the back they don't...

[ChrisJ800]

umm so a watch will show you the cabin pressure altitude or are you flying unpressurised? Ive got a casio; like the heading feature but rarely use the altitude though seeing the sea level pressure change could be handy.

[PPRuNeUser0184]

iPhone 6 is good enough for me......in addition to the 5 other clocks in the aircraft.

[Ultralights]

havnt worn a watch for nearly 20 years..

[Samurai34]

Originally Posted by ChrisJ800

umm so a watch will show you the cabin pressure altitude or are you flying unpressurised? Ive got a casio; like the heading feature but rarely use the altitude though seeing the sea level pressure change could be handy.

Unpressurised...

[Capt Claret]

What ever floats your boat, it's your money. But I suspect you'll pay such money for features rarely ever used once the novelty wears off.

[Lead Balloon]

I think you'll find that there's no watch in existence that can give you heading (unless you can find one with an inbuilt magnetic compass, like a Bata Scout shoe.)

You probably meant track...

[AerocatS2A]

Lead Balloon, my Tissot Touch has a compass.

[Lead Balloon]

So there's the solution, S34: A 'Tissot Touch'. (I stand corrected, AerocatS2A.)

Good luck sitting 'down the back' of an 'unpressurised' aircraft and sighting down the longitudinal axis of the aircraft to work out your magnetic heading.

I'd find the GPS-derived track a much more useful piece of navigational information than heading. But that's just me.

[Samurai34]

Thanks for all the help so far guys!

& I did mean track not heading, my bad........

[AerocatS2A]

Ah well, the Tissot Touch doesn't have track, it just becomes a magnetic compass with the hour and minute hands acting as the needle.

[James331]

I'm not sure how many hours you have, but you're really not going to use any of these features in the airplane in the real world, I know, I know, but what if XYZ fails, yeah, nope, you won't use them, hence why you see so many people selling those stupid garmin watches now.

That said, GPS watches have some great benifits for some outdoors sports and hunting and the like, they do have to be charged often, but if you want a GPS, compass, baro watch a suunto is the top dog, doesn't say pilot on it, or have a half arse HSI, but it's really the best when it comes to this type of hardware, it's also made with a sapphire lense and in Europe, not a Chinese watch.

Suunto Traverse Alpha Foliage ? the GPS/GLONASS outdoor watch

Hiking, Fishing and Hunting modes
Sunrise-sunset times and alerts
Fishing and hunting specific POI types
Moon phases and moon rise/set times
Automatic Shot detection
Red backlight, Night Vision Goggle compatible
GPS and GLONASS for route and POI navigation
Real-time breadcrumb view of the recorded track
Tracking for speed, distance and altitude
Route planning in Suunto's Movescount.com with topographic maps
Route preview and route altitude profile on the watch
100 m/330 ft water resistance
Altitude (FusedAlti™)
Weather trend and storm alarm
Compass
Backlight in flashlight mode
Vibration alarm
GPS time update
Daily, weekly, monthly and yearly activity tracking of steps and calories
Mobile notifications
Compatible with Suunto Movescount App (iOS and Android

I'll add that even though I really like these types of watches, day to day and in the cockpit at work I wear Swiss mechanical and automatic watches.