Funny Little thing about the watch

[NiiranenVR]

I'm sitting in the plane and ready for start , and take a look at the time - but time stopped 

The green start signal show off , and when take off the time start ! 

 

Later on when I'm back and the plane is landed , the time stop again ??

[IckyATLAS]

Completely normal behaviour. For a pilot living is flying. Only counts time in the air. On the ground time stops to avoid loosing your life capital.

[LukeFF]

1 minute ago, IckyATLAS said:

Completely normal behaviour. For a pilot living is flying. Only counts time in the air. On the ground time stops to avoid loosing your life capital.

 

Huh? He's talking about the internal stopwatch on the German aircraft clock.

[IckyATLAS]

Just now, LukeFF said:

 

Huh? He's talking about the internal stopwatch on the German aircraft clock.

Correct. Same for the plane. Plane dead on the ground, but alive in the air. 

[Martin077]

Since you can only use the start power for more or less exact one minute,

is it possible that some pilots use the clock as a stopwatch and start it when they start to throttle up to not miss the 1 minute mark?

 

I dont know if it was able to use the watch as a stopwatch?

[Mauf]

 

This thing indeed was a stopwatch (at least for the seconds I think). Minutes and hours are probably like any normal clock. Do the minutes freeze on the ground?

[NiiranenVR]

Okey .....I didn't knew it was a stopwatch .....and about the minutes I have not looked wether start/stop 

 

But what did they use the stopwatch for - navigation or other things 

[NiiranenVR]

A link to the watch 

 

https://relojdeavion.es/Me BF 109 in.html

 

[Willy__]

On 11/22/2018 at 7:44 PM, LukeFF said:

 

Huh? He's talking about the internal stopwatch on the German aircraft clock.

 

/whoosh

[montag]

Stop watches are useful for navigation. If you go for your PPL you will practice using a stop watch to estimate ground speed and things like that to get better at navigation. They're useful for a lot of things and pilots would often keep one in their flight bag, but most people can just access the stop watch on their smart phones these days so not as much need.