Watches With heading & alt
 

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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.

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

havnt worn a watch for nearly 20 years..

Unpressurised...

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.

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...

Lead Balloon, my Tissot Touch has a compass.

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. :ok:

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

Thanks for all the help so far guys!

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

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.

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

http://files.harrispublications.com/...ph-661x441.jpg

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.