Good watches for flying?

muddyboots · **Posted:** Mon Jun 04, 2007 3:11 am

yakdriver wrote:

Girl walks into the police department to report she had been sexually assaulted. They asked her for a description but she said she didn't get a good look at him but that he was definitely a pilot. When asked how she knew he was a pilot she answered "because he had a great big watch and an itty bitty peter."

If he had asked her to cash a check she'd have known he was a helo pilot

muddyboots · **Posted:** Mon Jun 04, 2007 3:11 am

whoopsie!

Nathan · **Posted:** Mon Jun 04, 2007 7:08 am

Thanks everyone for the replies. Na, I already got a watch. I was just curious to see what everyone had and what ones were good for pilots.

Thanks,
Nathan

Forgotten Field · **Posted:** Mon Jun 04, 2007 7:51 am

Third on the G-Shock. And a warning about the Tag Heuer. They like to shed the bezel, usually due to weak springs. I bought one as a gift to myself for finishing up a long difficult course in the Army, and wouldn't buy another one for that reason. People I worked with really liked the G-Shock. It is cheap, and it has a lot of functions.

Bill Greenwood · **Posted:** Mon Jun 04, 2007 9:47 am

What do you plan to use the watch for? If it is actualy flying then you need reliable above all , then ease of use , readability. Gimiicks that look good in the showroom made not be good in flight. In my planed i NEED TO ACCURATELY KE3EP TRACK OF ELAPSED TIME since takeoff to tiem fuel used and remaing, and aslo time drop ank if I am useing that. I use a simpel inexpensive analog Times, about $23 at discont stores. It aslos has the advantage of being small and not cathing on things lliek a fl;ight suit. I alos use a slighty fanciedr model that has a rotating bezel so yoiou can mark your takeoff time.

Randy Haskin · **Posted:** Mon Jun 04, 2007 10:18 am

Bill Greenwood wrote:

I alos use a slighty fanciedr model that has a rotating bezel so yoiou can mark your takeoff time.

I find that a regular old pencil and a piece of paper on a kneeboard is also a good way of keeping track of takeoff time.

Eric Friedebach · **Posted:** Mon Jun 04, 2007 9:01 pm

Bill Greenwood wrote:

What do you plan to use the watch for? If it is actualy flying then you need reliable above all , then ease of use , readability. Gimiicks that look good in the showroom made not be good in flight. In my planed i NEED TO ACCURATELY KE3EP TRACK OF ELAPSED TIME since takeoff to tiem fuel used and remaing, and aslo time drop ank if I am useing that. I use a simpel inexpensive analog Times, about $23 at discont stores. It aslos has the advantage of being small and not cathing on things lliek a fl;ight suit. I alos use a slighty fanciedr model that has a rotating bezel so yoiou can mark your takeoff time.

Hey Bill, does that new Garmin 696 you were talking about last week also have a web browser with a teeny tiny little keyboard?

Brad · **Joined:** Thu Apr 29, 2004 10:30 pm **Posts:** 1132

Nathan wrote:

Na, I already got a watch.

Fair enough...if anybody else wants a genuine Air Force G-Shock watch, give me your address and it will be on it's way to you!

phil65 · **Posted:** Thu Jun 07, 2007 6:36 pm

Nathan,

Keep flying and you can join the AOPA and get one of thiers for $125 :shock:

Phil

Tim Adams · **Joined:** Sat Apr 08, 2006 7:17 pm **Posts:** 301

Any closet watch nut like me knows that the only good watch is a watch with hundreds of moving parts inside. No quartz for me, only automatics. They wind from your arm swinging. They are not kinetic, like many Seikos. So far I have only three, but the favorite so far is,

http://www.pmwf.com/Watches/WATCHSALES0 ... Silver.htm

Seiko also makes many automatics, but they must be bought online, they are not marketed here in the US, my second favorite that I have bought,

http://www.pmwf.com/Watches/WATCHSALES/ ... arch04.htm

Quartz watches have no soul.

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