This is the brand new Garmin D2 Mach 1 pilot watch now normally at the start of a new tech video i do
an unboxing but i've actually already unboxed this on tick top yes the biggest surprise that you're
going to take away from this video is there is a man in his mid 40s in Australia who has a tick
tock account now lots of you have been asking can i use this watch with full flight or do i have to
have Garmin Pilot in order to use it well i'll be answering those questions and many more as
i take this for a full flight test today at the airport why does someone always start up when i'm
Good morning now before getting started before you go flying if you want to get the most out
of this watch you do need to download one app it's a free app and that's Garmin connect that's
what allows you to configure all the settings on your watch you can set up your home airport that
gives you the weather information or the metals information that comes through to the watch it
connects to your watch via bluetooth i haven't had any problems with the connectivity and you can
connect more than one device at once so actually i've been very lucky to test a couple of Garmin
watches recently both of these are connected to the same one Garmin connect app on my iPhone.
Shannon here from BASE aviation is taking me out uh on this flight today so thank you very much
don't worry do you offer other services apart from just taking YouTubers up when they want to
do watch reviews i don't really watch reviews it's only watch reviews it's very nice the RPL through
to CPL as well as instrument flight training instructor training at night before training
i always say do your research make your own decision i'm never going to tell you who to
fly with but i've known Shannon a long time we've been friends for a long time if you want a flight
school to talk to talk to Shannon mention my name she'll give you a massive discount
the first cool thing when you're setting the watch up on the ground is with the altimeter you see the
q and h down here one zero one nine hectopascals at the moment that's automatically set so you
don't need to do that yourself and that's set because if the weather information is pulling
through so it gets that from the meta you've also got other bits of info here things like your
frequencies if you don't have your ipad handy you can quickly pull these up these little yellow and
green numbers show you the wind direction so it actually shows you which runway would be preferred
you can use the buttons on the side as well to navigate so you can see i go through the different
options here just using the up and down buttons but if you want and it's actually a little bit
more intuitive using it on your wrist you can use the touch screen as well so you do have the two
options i think there is also a way to disable the touchscreen i haven't discovered how to
i've read that you can exactly wow tech reviewer of the year
i think you can do it somewhere oh yeah so just waiting for this partner in front of
us to take off the one thing we should find is on the watch uh when we take off it's set to
automatically track the flight itself and you can set that to different tolerances i've got
this set to 500 feet per minute so as long as we can hit that shannon i know it's air pressure
playing with it but this is the proper first flight test so yes it did automatically go off
it does take it's about a minute a sort of minute after takeoff but i guess it's calibrating itself
making sure that we are actually taking off so now we have the flight display on the watch and
it gives us some basic information the track at the top the ground speed solid 110 it's not
bad you can swipe through these different screens now as well which is pretty cool got the nearest
airport function as well which i'll talk about in a second because we'll talk about navigation
the moving map which is pretty cool moving about zoomed out apparently we're in australia which is
brilliant i know so the question about do you need garmin pilot to use this well the answer is no
you don't now i use garmin pilot so i do have it integrated but in this instance i don't have my
ipad with me it's not bluetooth so everything you're seeing here is not you don't require
garmin pilot to use this so you can see on this screen this is kind of your navigation screen
there's no navigation information now if this was integrated with garmin pilot you would then see
your magenta line if you had a gps track loaded in something like your gtx 650 or 750 however
what it will still do is you can do if i go to nearest and go okay and go to nearest airports
then you can still pull up information so obviously moravian is our nearest airport
because we were just there so when you plugged in your nearest airport then you can see from braving
obviously that's a northerly direction we're heading southerly kind of sort of south west
at the moment so that that concur so you can still use the nearest airport function on the watch even
though you don't have it integrated with garmin pilot on your ipad and foxtrot oscilloscope will
give us sort of appreciation of the baseball club so you do the pulse ox test i'm really skeptical
there we go 96 percent i'm officially alive
i wear my watch quite loose i quite like it quite loose if it's loose to your wrist it's not going
to work as well so just a bit of a tip if you are using this watch and you're going to wear it loose
you might just need to hold it to your wrist if you want to get your pulse off setting but
there you go 96 that's not too bad i'm happy that worked the other stuff when you're in
flight which is going to be really useful as you can get i like this one this is sunrise
sunset this is all based on nearest airport as well oh it even has like simple in action
that's civil twilight yes alternative time zones as well i've obviously just got my rabbit set up
on here but if you are flying internationally uh crossing time zones you can put all those
different time zones in this watch as well now the altimeter i just want to see how accurate that is
we've got uh 1 8 10 on here at the moment and on the shannon's pfd we've got one 760 with a qhm1019
so look you're not going to use this as a primary altimeter for determining exactly how high up you
are you're obviously not going to read this back to atc but as a backup there's also a
barometer on here as well so you can see what the pressure settings are also a trend line at
the bottom here which is quite useful so you can see if the pressure is increasing or decreasing
there is a compass on here as well which is pretty nice and then of course and i'm not
going to go into in this video but there's all the exercise functions on here as well so things
like your step count if you're a runner like me if you like cycling whatever it is every sport
under the sun is on this garmin watch there's a lot of things you can track on this watch too
so that's all included in the watch as well um auto logging altimeter navigation direct to pulse
or moving map you want to access the moving map you just click on the main screen or the main
start button like you're going to log a flight you click on map and then you have a full ah
i can't hold it still there we go fully interactive moving map as well so you can
zoom in and out so yes there's an absolute backup you can see the moving map on here
obviously you've got your primary avionics that's what you're using for the flight itself but as
a kind of nice to have maybe for passengers as well if someone is flying with you and they are
wearing a watch like this but also what is cool is if you can't get a good gps signal when you're
flying commercially then on a commercial flight as well you can see exactly where you are on the
watch zoom in and out rapid tower good morning serious hotel quebec quebec overhead carrera 1
500 inbound with arabia i don't know during the week down in runway one three right i looked
down one one three right here there's a couple of other features i want to mention about this
but i'll do that down on the ground um i'll let cena man thanks for flying with me again that's
okay to say but god i like flying
okay back down on the ground yeah a few other things this watch does as well not
necessarily related to flying itself but you can get all your notifications on your watch
as well one big thing i'd recommend is do set up a focus you know those focus settings if you use
ios set up a flying one so you don't get all the notifications on your watch when you're actually
out there flying it can be quite distracting this does come with two watch straps a titanium watch
and a leather one but whichever one you choose you still get the silicon watch strap as well
in the box and i just say if you're exercising with this it's a bit heavier with the titanium
band on so if you put the silicon band on you can use this as an exercising watch as well and you
can set up spotify these music players like that on here and you can play music from your watch
uh to your bluetooth headset when you're running as well all right so important question then who
is this watch for who do i think should buy this watch well i've said this before about technology
on this channel if you're just starting out if you're learning to fly if you're a student pilot
don't spend your money on technology spend your money on fuel spend your money on flying
lessons but if you are a pilot be it private or commercial you are really into your aviation
or if you're just looking for a good smart watch honestly and i'm not just saying this
i've worn this for the last two weeks this is officially the best watch i've ever owned
if you still undecided i made this video about the garmin d2 air x10
is an entry-level pilot's watch it might be more what you're looking for otherwise
thank you to garmin for sending me the mark one thanks to shannon from base
aviation for taking me flying and thanks to you for watching i'll see in the next video