Any good/use??
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Any good/use??
Can you please let me know whether the following is any good or not?
Lidl are selling (next week) a digital wristwatch with altimeter for £24.99!
The altimeter will display a range from - 9,164m to + 9,164m (also displays in feet). barometric pressure range is 300 to 1.000hPa/mbar.
It also has a thermometer built in (-10 to +60c) and a stopwatch.
It also tells the time apparently.
I remember approx 10 years ago that Casio made a similar type watch but it was about 6 or 7 times the cost?
Kind regards,
PD
Lidl are selling (next week) a digital wristwatch with altimeter for £24.99!
The altimeter will display a range from - 9,164m to + 9,164m (also displays in feet). barometric pressure range is 300 to 1.000hPa/mbar.
It also has a thermometer built in (-10 to +60c) and a stopwatch.
It also tells the time apparently.
I remember approx 10 years ago that Casio made a similar type watch but it was about 6 or 7 times the cost?
Kind regards,
PD
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Having owned a Casio version some years ago I would say don't bother.
Just buy a watch for telling the time, an altimeter for telling your altitude and a thermometer for telling the temperature.
Seriously
Just buy a watch for telling the time, an altimeter for telling your altitude and a thermometer for telling the temperature.
Seriously
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Alan, the sheer weight of a Breitling might well snap knicker elastic and I have heard that only plank pilots need the extra help... 
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Many thanks for the responses folks...
I was just wondering whether it's worth buying one as a kind of 'standby'.
I fly with a handheld scanner just in case of radio failure (I know I can't broadcast but at least I can hear ATC).
I rely on my trusty Poljot to tell me the time, and Mrs Dakar would go ape if I ever contemplated buying a Breitling! She went ape enough when I bought my excellent quality replica Navitimer a couple of years back.
Ta much all.
I fly with a handheld scanner just in case of radio failure (I know I can't broadcast but at least I can hear ATC).
I rely on my trusty Poljot to tell me the time, and Mrs Dakar would go ape if I ever contemplated buying a Breitling! She went ape enough when I bought my excellent quality replica Navitimer a couple of years back.
Ta much all.
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I have a Suunto Vector that comes with a built in Altimeter.
It's fairly accurate for GA - not that I would ever dream of using it as a primary source EVER!
What I love doing (because I have no life) is watching it go crazy during pressurization in jets.
It's fairly accurate for GA - not that I would ever dream of using it as a primary source EVER!
What I love doing (because I have no life) is watching it go crazy during pressurization in jets.
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So this is where you are hiding PD
The comments are spot on rely on what you've got in front of you and spend the money on air time, and before you reply it does not make any difference as you well know what I have on my wrist .and yes if you remember the conversation She went off it as well over the cost but what the hell..
The comments are spot on rely on what you've got in front of you and spend the money on air time, and before you reply it does not make any difference as you well know what I have on my wrist .and yes if you remember the conversation She went off it as well over the cost but what the hell..
