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AV I AT ION HISTORY /
PRODUCTS /
Who was the first
Black female
commercial pilot?
An aviation
smart watch
Go ahead and talk to your wrist
BY DAVE HIRSCHMAN
AV I AT ION WATCHES HAVE gone from essential
tools, to fashion statements, to nearly complete
obsolescence during the past half-century.
Garmin is determined to make watches relevant
again, and its D2 Air X10 accomplishes
this with features that would have seemed like
science fiction to previous generations of aviators.
Voice recognition, a pulse oximeter, GPS navigation, and a national aviation
JANET BRAGG (born Janet Harmon in
Griffin, Georgia, in 1907) was the first
Black woman to enroll at the Curtiss
Wright School of Aeronautics in Chicago.
She was the only woman in a class of 24
men. She trained at Robbins Field in
1934 and eventually received her license
at Pal-Waukee Airport near Chicago
in 1943. She was denied entry into the
Women Airforce Service Pilot (WASP)
program because she was Black. In
1946, she purchased a Super Cruiser, in
which she logged many hours of crosscountry
flying. Bragg continued to fly
for pleasure into the 1970s. Her autobiography,
Soaring Above Setbacks, with
Marjorie Kriz, was published after her
death in 1996. Bragg will be inducted
into the Georgia Aviation Hall of Fame
on April 30, 2022.
database are all built into a light, attractive, moderately-priced ($549.99) watch
with a battery that lasts up to five days in normal operation or 10 hours when
using its internal GPS and other power-hungry features.
The new Air X10 version is the same size as the D2 Air watch (introduced in
2020) but adds voice recognition so the wearer can use voice assistants like Siri
or initiate phone calls and text messages at the push of one dedicated button.
Like many pilots, I stopped wearing a watch in recent years and seldom
missed it. After all, omnipresent smart phones tell time just fine, and you don't
have to reset them when moving between time zones. But becoming a watch
wearer again while writing this review was surprisingly enjoyable, and it brought
back some once-familiar cockpit habits. Holding short of a runway before takeoff,
for example, used to be the moment for starting the timer, and doing so became
second nature. That's not necessary on the Air X10 since it switches to aviation
mode, including a timer, as soon as it senses a climb. Manually setting a destination,
however, provides a constant readout of ground speed, altitude, and ground
track. And if you prefer a horizontal situation indicator with a magenta course
line, the Air X10 watch face will instantly morph into that, too.
Garmin's strength has long been the tight integration of its growing universe
of devices, and the Air X10 is no exception. If you're running the Garmin Pilot
app on a smart phone or tablet, for example, those devices will seamlessly share
the active flight plans with the watch. (But don't worry. The watch can't alter
flight plans on those other devices.)
The D2 Air X10 can be useful across the full spectrum of GA aircraft. When
flying a low-and-slow airplane with minimal avionics, it provides a GPS navigation
backup, weather reports, and nearest-airport guidance. In highly
sophisticated cockpits, it can send and receive texts, check flight plans, and even
call ATC. The D2 Air X10 excels before and during flight. It shows METAR
weather at a glance, communicates effortlessly with other Garmin avionics, and
can serve as a navigator of last resort if everything else goes dark.
It's also comfortable, rugged, and looks great-and those considerations have
always been top of mind to pilots. dave.hirschman@aopa.org
AOPA PILOT / April 2022
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