We won't repeat all the information on the website or in the video, but one of our team's favorite features of this new watch is the ability to display decoded METARs. There are two METAR pages, and this is the first (the second has age, temps, baro setting).
When you select the METAR airport, you can simply select Nearest, or enter any airport identifier. If the airport you select isn't a reporting station, it will find the nearest to display and identify it. Once you select an airport, it remembers it and uses it each time you ask it to show the METAR page.
You can define in the watch setup the display order of "widgets" like the METAR page and altitude page, and I have mine setup so I just press the Down button on the left side when the watch face is being used, and the METAR page is first up.
How does it do that?![Smile :) :)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
Well, it actually requires a Bluetooth link to your Android or iOS phone which is running the free Garmin Connect Mobile app. The D2 Bravo watch sends the METAR update request to Garmin Connect, which then accesses the Garmin weather server and returns a small amount of data containing the latest METAR which is displayed by the watch. It only takes a couple of seconds for the update.
On an Android phone, you don't even have to be running Garmin Connect Mobile in the foreground. It runs as a service behind the scene.
At $699, it probably isn't for everyone, but we expect that some dealers will have stock at Oshkosh if you want to take one home.
Thanks,
Steve
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When you select the METAR airport, you can simply select Nearest, or enter any airport identifier. If the airport you select isn't a reporting station, it will find the nearest to display and identify it. Once you select an airport, it remembers it and uses it each time you ask it to show the METAR page.
You can define in the watch setup the display order of "widgets" like the METAR page and altitude page, and I have mine setup so I just press the Down button on the left side when the watch face is being used, and the METAR page is first up.
How does it do that?
Well, it actually requires a Bluetooth link to your Android or iOS phone which is running the free Garmin Connect Mobile app. The D2 Bravo watch sends the METAR update request to Garmin Connect, which then accesses the Garmin weather server and returns a small amount of data containing the latest METAR which is displayed by the watch. It only takes a couple of seconds for the update.
On an Android phone, you don't even have to be running Garmin Connect Mobile in the foreground. It runs as a service behind the scene.
At $699, it probably isn't for everyone, but we expect that some dealers will have stock at Oshkosh if you want to take one home.
Thanks,
Steve