Steven, Steven. Ask me what time it is. What's the time Stef? Glad you asked Steven!
Hello bonjour voila okay
I think i know where i can go and test this out
I've spent my whole life my university degree was in technology my whole career was working
in technology and i obviously love the aviation world as well so when a new product comes out
that takes those two worlds that i love and i get really excited to try it out
and i get excited to share it with you on the channel i'm heading to the airport to test out
the new garmin d2 air x10 pilot smart watch my first question is who comes up with these names
the first thing to note is this is not the first iteration of the d2 air there was a d2 air i think
it was just called that before it and now this is the d2 air x10 i've forgotten which is which this
is the new one main differences you'll notice here on the side the new one's got this new
button in the middle now the button on the side is the shortcut button you can set it to do
two things you can do a single press and a long press what i've got is a single press i've got
it set up to show my music and a long press i've got it to do a direct two destination for example
i could do moorabbin which is my home airport get a direct 2 from where i am now although
it's not going to do it because i'm inside a hangar and there's no gps signal inside here
other main difference between the two is the glass that they use the new d2 air has got much tougher
gorilla glass 3 compared to the original but the beveled edges on the edge here when you're
swiping and moving a tiny bit clumsy on the old one it's a lot smoother on the new x10 just on the
swiping as well the hardware has been improved a lot on this compared to the previous version
so you can just see how smooth it is to swipe through everything here also the software on it
you just have to swipe through a single screen for every new bit of information now you get
these things called gestures and if you can swipe through you can see all your gestures in one place
and if there's one that you're interested in just tap on it oh i've got a phone call
you can see it just runs a lot faster than the old
one screen swipe another screen swipe another screen swipe another screen
but is it just a toy or can you actually use this
watch in the cockpit if you are flying with it as well
so you remember when i said that i really love technology one of the most infuriating parts
of any bits of tech for me is when you have to pair it with something like an ipad or an iphone
a little bit of a behind the scenes i've been sitting here for probably about 15-20 minutes
trying to pair this to my ipad right now now i like to think i'm not stupid when it comes to
tech but either i'm doing something fundamentally wrong or all right sorry for the interruption at
this point in the video you would have noticed i was trying to connect my garmin watch to my ipad
it uses bluetooth to connect to whichever device you're using so if you're already connected to
the iphone which i was you can't then connect it to the ipad without disconnecting it from
the original device and i wanted to show you the flight plan integration how you can get the
magenta line display with the course deviation indicator but i've since taken off all the
bluetooth connectivity from my ipad away and i've only got the d2 air x10 connected to my iphone it
means i can use all the new voice functionality like voice commands but in the cockpit even though
it's not connected to garmin pilot i can still use all the aviation rich features like the altimeter
the pulse oximeter different watch faces displaying universal time clocks as well as
local time the direct ii airport information metas weather info all that fun stuff you don't need to
connect to garmin pilot to get that aviation rich content on your watch even though i do have garmin
pilot and i do use it i'm not actually going to connect my watch to it i'm just going to connect
my watch to my iphone use all the aviation features in flight and just use the ipad as an
ipad don't get me wrong it's a cool feature but i don't know when i ever need to have my flight plan
on my watch when i've got it on okay just thought that was important to cover back to the airport
remember with the old d2 air i had the problem with the pulse oximeter the thing that measures
your blood oxygen saturation levels i kind of went back to using this fingertip clothes peg
thing that kind of sits on the indie finger i want to get rid of this so i'm really hoping the new
d2a x10 has got a more reliable pulse oximeter
and i thought i'd reserve my first test for it here with you on youtube so let's see
so the new ones already worked 95 the old one still thinking okay could be something
to do with where i've got it placed on my wrist let me put the old one it's stopped
and see this was the problem with the old d2 air it's just it was too unreliable with
measuring your blood oxygen saturation so that's why i never used the watch in
flight but the question is do i get the same results from the new watch as i do through the
fingertip one that i've been using up until now so let's do it one more time
96 96 that's the third pulse ox test i've done on this watch all three have worked
first time which is great because it means i don't need to carry this with me anymore
so let's go through a couple of quick questions after i asked you guys on instagram what you
wanted to know about the d2 air a couple of you ultra 82c underscored events asking does it work
with four flight as far as i'm aware at the moment no only with garmin pilot kenzie isabella best for
ifr or vfr i'm actually going to test this in flight in a future video i'll have a better idea
back then but honestly i don't think it's going to matter ifrl vfr ks brendan is it worth it if
you're a renter rather than an owner good question i actually don't think it matters whether you're
a renter or owner what matters is how many hours you're going to be flying if you're only flying a
few hours and you're new in your training and you want to be spending money on something i
probably suggest spend money on fuel rather than a gadget like this but if you fly quite
a lot and it is going to complement your flying then i don't think it matters if you rent or own
it's still going to be useful f right 61 is it good for fitness tracking too yes
lots of you asking about the oxygen levels is it working better than the old one i hope i answered
that but i genuinely think it is kron in nz can you genuinely see yourself using it in flight yeah
i honestly can wouldn't have seen myself using the original d2 air in flight but because this one it
just runs a lot quicker it's a lot more intuitive i like the user interface and it seems to work it
like actually works a lot better than the previous version as a complement to my flying yes i can
see myself using this in flight shane on travel watch the battery life as with everything that
garmin makes i don't know what magic they weave in their factories but the battery life on this
thing is insane it's currently showing 35 battery when i got this out of the box about six days ago
i gave it about a three-quarter charge to i think it was 75 still showing 35 after all the testing
running playing about with the phone dan bellis would it do golf running and cycling stuff too
yeah you've got all your standard activities on here that you'd expect walking indoor walking
outdoor trails floor climbing you get the idea there's a lot there's a lot on there pc logo
pt long 01 does it have a you taps yes it does just go into your airport here you can scroll down
find the weather and then if you swipe through the weather there you go there's the tap wind variable
three knots you wouldn't think that with the noise that the hangar doors are making at the moment
dom inman what's the weight like do you notice it when you're moving your arms around
all jokes aside it's a very very light smart watch it's not it's not heavy at all hi
i am sia does it cost an arm and a leg depends how much value you place on an arm and a leg but
it costs between about 800 and 850 australian dollars online at the moment lucky home zero
two does it work just as well in australia as it would in the us but it's got a worldwide
airport database in it so i don't think it matters whereabouts in the world you are
just a full disclosure garmin did send me this watch for free so
thank you garmin i do appreciate that let me know what you want to know about the
new d2 air x10 thank you as always for watching see in the next video