Wrist Watch for a Pilot?
04-05-2017 | 06:16 PM
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As someone who prefers digital readouts, I was going to go for the Casio PRW-3100T. It's good for dressy events and is digital at the same time.
It has a nice metal bracelet, solar charging, atomic clock updates, and built in sensors like temperature, altimeter, barometer and compass. The compass is very accurate it seems.
On the other hand, there's the Samsung Gear S3 that has the ability to change faces, so if I'm flying at night, it would be nice to be able to have a red display to preserve night vision while displaying important information like Zulu time, have the ability to send an SOS message to contacts with GPS location and tracking. It's also a multi-function watch. If I'm attending a fancy social event, I can change the watch face.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BO7tSI_1AcE
The problem with the smartwatch is that it needs charging, roughly every two days.
Pro and cons.
What would you go with?
As an aside, the problem I have with the various timers that I have come across, the ones that are cockpit mountable using a suction cup or what have you, don't give you a break down of total time vs. leg time, akin to lap time. My phone is actually a better tool for that function.
It has a nice metal bracelet, solar charging, atomic clock updates, and built in sensors like temperature, altimeter, barometer and compass. The compass is very accurate it seems.
On the other hand, there's the Samsung Gear S3 that has the ability to change faces, so if I'm flying at night, it would be nice to be able to have a red display to preserve night vision while displaying important information like Zulu time, have the ability to send an SOS message to contacts with GPS location and tracking. It's also a multi-function watch. If I'm attending a fancy social event, I can change the watch face.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BO7tSI_1AcE
The problem with the smartwatch is that it needs charging, roughly every two days.
Pro and cons.
What would you go with?
As an aside, the problem I have with the various timers that I have come across, the ones that are cockpit mountable using a suction cup or what have you, don't give you a break down of total time vs. leg time, akin to lap time. My phone is actually a better tool for that function.
04-06-2017 | 07:03 AM
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As someone who prefers digital readouts, I was going to go for the Casio PRW-3100T. It's good for dressy events and is digital at the same time.
It has a nice metal bracelet, solar charging, atomic clock updates, and built in sensors like temperature, altimeter, barometer and compass. The compass is very accurate it seems.
On the other hand, there's the Samsung Gear S3 that has the ability to change faces, so if I'm flying at night, it would be nice to be able to have a red display to preserve night vision while displaying important information like Zulu time, have the ability to send an SOS message to contacts with GPS location and tracking. It's also a multi-function watch. If I'm attending a fancy social event, I can change the watch face.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BO7tSI_1AcE
The problem with the smartwatch is that it needs charging, roughly every two days.
Pro and cons.
What would you go with?
As an aside, the problem I have with the various timers that I have come across, the ones that are cockpit mountable using a suction cup or what have you, don't give you a break down of total time vs. leg time, akin to lap time. My phone is actually a better tool for that function.
It has a nice metal bracelet, solar charging, atomic clock updates, and built in sensors like temperature, altimeter, barometer and compass. The compass is very accurate it seems.
On the other hand, there's the Samsung Gear S3 that has the ability to change faces, so if I'm flying at night, it would be nice to be able to have a red display to preserve night vision while displaying important information like Zulu time, have the ability to send an SOS message to contacts with GPS location and tracking. It's also a multi-function watch. If I'm attending a fancy social event, I can change the watch face.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BO7tSI_1AcE
The problem with the smartwatch is that it needs charging, roughly every two days.
Pro and cons.
What would you go with?
As an aside, the problem I have with the various timers that I have come across, the ones that are cockpit mountable using a suction cup or what have you, don't give you a break down of total time vs. leg time, akin to lap time. My phone is actually a better tool for that function.
Zulu time & multiple time zones
No battery
Easy to read in all conditions including darkness
Durable/waterproof
If you start adding requirements to that list, it's likely that some things you need above will suffer.
It's a watch, dude. It's not a portable weather station, back up instrument panel or an emergency communication device for an SOS. If you find one that you think looks "dressy" as an extra bonus, great, I guess. However, a watch that needs to be charged every two days would be a show stopper for me. No way. SOS thing also isn't going to be worth spit when the battery dies a day into whatever survival situation you might end up in. Keep it simple.
04-08-2017 | 01:58 PM
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