Garmin Aviation Watches
$324.99
Condition: Refurbished; Open Box
Your Choice: D2 Bravo Aviation Watch
Top positive review
24 people found this helpful
This is be an amazing watch, not so amazing app
By Ron G on Reviewed in the United States on July 23, 2015
UPDATE: Just like another reviewer noted, I just found out that this watch WILL NOT sync with the Garmin Pilot app, even though it's advertised as such. This is a huge blunder by Garmin with false advertising and significantly reduces the functionality of the watch. I still think it is a quality build watch, however I am very disappointed with Garmin on this. Here's the email I received from their support: Unfortunately, the app Garmin Pilot, doesn’t currently connect to the D2 Bravo. And here’s the real kickers – their support has informed me that the app was never intended to connect to the D2 Bravo watch. This all makes this seem like false advertising to me. Here’s their email to me: Thank you for contacting Garmin: Garmin product developers did not give the D2 Bravo the ability to interface with the Garmin Pilot App. There are no plans to enable this interface in the future. We apologize for any inconvenience. Thank you and best regards, Aaron S Aviation Field Support Specialist 1200 E. 151st Street | Olathe, KS 66062, USA | Phone: +1.866.739.5687 | email: aviation.support@garmin.com >> Original Message … >> To: Product.support@garmin.com >> Subject: Doesn’t sync with D2 Bravo watch >> Sent: 08/06/2015 9:59 AM >> >>Escalate EmailEscalation from KANA On Demand Self Service >> Subject: Doesn’t sync with D2 Bravo watch Description: I have the new D2 Bravo watch, however Garmin Pilot doesn’t connect to it and still references the older D2 watch. MarketName: In the Air ProductGroup: Apps Product: Garmin Pilot Here's an excerpt from the Garmin website that explains the connectivity that is supposed to exist, but doesn't: http://garmin.blogs.com/pr/2014/07/garmin-enhances-connext-with-wireless-cockpit-connectivity-to-mobile-devices.html#.Vc-7IHh7zJV and http://sites.garmin.com/en-US/connext/ Portable Connectivity Connext encompasses a suite of capabilities, which have been built into our portable product line and provide customers with more flexibility and information in the cockpit. Garmin Pilot supports connectivity with VIRB™, Garmin’s HD action camera so pilots can view video, control recording options and take photos while simultaneously viewing flight plan information. Also, remote control capability of VIRB is available from the touchscreen of G3X Touch. When integrating VIRB with G3X Touch, pilots can start and stop video and take photos from the display so capturing the perfect moment in-flight is simple. Pilots can use the D2™ Pilot Watch as a secondary navigation aid, which can also receive flight plan information from Garmin Pilot. Additionally, D2 can remotely control VIRB so pilots can start and stop video, view elapsed time for active video recording and capture high quality still photos – even when video recording is active. Further integration of the GDL 39 3D with both Garmin Pilot and the aera® 796/795, offers pilots additional connectivity including the display of ADS-B traffic and weather and back-up aircraft attitude information. I considered buying an apple watch, but this one does everything I could ask of a watch with features the apple watch doesn't have, such at waterproofing to 10 ATM, a battery life that goes for six weeks vice 18 hours, a Garmin WAAS GPS (apple has no GPS), barometer, altimeter, thermometer, high accuracy 3-axis compass, swim tracking (apple none - voids warranty as well), and ANT+ to connect to a plethora of sensors, including heart rate belt. It also has BT and Wifi. I used it in flight today and it's very accurate, and although mostly just a cool thing to brag about with your flying buddies, it's truly a very usable backup navigational tool - EXCEPT for the fact it can't receive any flight plans or interface with their own Garmin Pilot app. The quality, fit and finish are very good and what you would expect from Garmin. The leather band is excellent as well, although I swapped it out with a stainless link band as I use this for swim tracking. It has pretty much all the features Garmin offers in all of their watches combined into one, including pretty much all fitness tracking, skydiving, geocaching, etc.... it's crazy..even tracks your sleep. UPDATE: 11/2/2015 with a few months of use now, I'm very pleased with the watch and the way Garmin has supported it. They've made several updates to the watch software, including adding multiple alarms, bug fixes - especially navigation items such as making auto fly more accurate. I would buy this again.
Top critical review
103 people found this helpful
Extremely disappointing for an "Aviation" watch.
By AP on Reviewed in the United States on August 11, 2015
I owned both Garmin D2 and D2 Bravo. I am a private pilot and I had flown rather extensively with the D2 and I have learnt to appreciate and trust this compact gadget that is strapped around my wrist, programmed to provide me with instantaneous navigational information in situations when I can’t read the on-board Garmin GPSMap 496 (e.g. direct sunlight that washed-out the screen). Having read all the hype about D2 Bravo, I ordered a piece from Amazon and received it a week ago. I am still testing out the D2 Bravo to garner enough confidence before I would trust it in aviation navigation (even as a back-up). In a nutshell, the D2 Bravo is a huge disappointment . The most glaring short-comings are now listed. These are functions that are present in the D2 but sadly, missing from the D2 Bravo. 1) Programming flight routes The troubles began right-out-of-the-box. Being outside the US, I am unable to utilize Garmin Pilot app to program my flight routes. With D2, you can directly program the coordinates as a waypoint with the watch. You can even program an entirely new flight plan with the D2 itself, so long you know the coordinates of the waypoints. In the case of D2 Bravo, the flight route is programmed via Garmin BaseCamp and copied into the watch. This makes any additional of waypoints in a flight route impossible without a computer. Pilots do not necessarily always fly with a laptop and any last-minute addition of waypoint(s) is now impossible. For those familiar with the old D2, "Flight Plan" is now gone, replaced by "Courses". This is an aviation watch for goodness sake, not a F1 racing watch. 2) Navigation This is where D2 Bravo failed. Miserably. For some unknown reasons, the data field in the D2 Bravo is unable to display the names of a programmed waypoint. Only dashes appeared in the form of “_ _ _ _” under the Dest Name field. This field displayed only the ICAO code of an aerodrome. You will never know which waypoint the D2 Bravo is navigating to in a flight route, except by guessing from the Bearing to the waypoint (if you have that displayed that is). Gone were the ETE, ETA, Distance-to to a waypoint. In a navigation route, the ETE, ETA, Distance-to were all to the Destination, regardless of the waypoint that you may be flying towards. This is not helpful in positional reports to ATC at all. Granted, the Distance-to is displayed in the HSI, but having to switch screens all the time from the essential information page is unacceptable. The skipping of any single waypoint in the programmed flight route is no longer possible as that function is now missing too. This is highly undesirable as there are a myriad of reasons why pilots may need to skip a certain waypoint whilst in flight – from weather avoidance to ATC instruction. The additional of the Alert alarm is much welcomed, but not without shortcoming too. I’ve programmed my Alert at 30 minutes interval to switch tanks. On the mark, the watch vibrated for about one second with the programmed text (“Switch Tank” in my case), before returning to the previous screen. The alert does not stay on and neither were there any reminder. Should the pilot be engaged with any other activities at that moment, like maneuvering or communicating, he may well miss the alert. It will be good if the alert can stay on until an acknowledgement key-press. Luckily, readability is not an issue even under direct sunlight. However, you may have difficulties in reading without the backlight at dim lighting condition, like dawn/dusk situation where there is insufficient ambient lights for screen-reading. Battery-life of the D2 Bravo is impressive. In my opinion, the D2 Bravo is currently over-stated as a “pilot’s watch”, much less as a back-up navigation tool even for a VFR pilot like I am. As it is now, certain mobile apps are performing better with the right mobile equipment (which is priced almost similarly as the D2 Bravo). Like a piece of raw-diamond, I will not recommend this watch to any pilots until further software updates to better refine the D2 Bravo (other than those “pilots” who wanted an expensive show-piece that measures health-related activities better than aviation navigation). Personally, I will stick to my old trusty D2 for now.
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