The recent rather neglected thread on "locking in a heading" on the Suunto D9 got me to thinking.
My Liquivision X1 has a compass in it, but I don't use it. Tapping through the menu to display the compass is too cumbersome, when I have a Suunto compass on my other wrist. But I don't look at the face of my compass. I only look in the side window, and read the heading. I have predetermined the desired heading, and I know what the reciprocal is. I find the top display nothing but confusing most of the time. I do not use the bezel at all. (I do use the analog display when I'm scootering, because I'm looking down on the compass, anyway.)
But I got to thinking that it wouldn't be all that difficult for these gauges with built-in electronic compasses to read out the heading digitally, and incorporate that on the display screen, either as a continuously available datum or scrolling, or selectable. Being able to glance at one gauge and get my depth, time and heading might be quite pleasant.
What do the rest of you think?
My Liquivision X1 has a compass in it, but I don't use it. Tapping through the menu to display the compass is too cumbersome, when I have a Suunto compass on my other wrist. But I don't look at the face of my compass. I only look in the side window, and read the heading. I have predetermined the desired heading, and I know what the reciprocal is. I find the top display nothing but confusing most of the time. I do not use the bezel at all. (I do use the analog display when I'm scootering, because I'm looking down on the compass, anyway.)
But I got to thinking that it wouldn't be all that difficult for these gauges with built-in electronic compasses to read out the heading digitally, and incorporate that on the display screen, either as a continuously available datum or scrolling, or selectable. Being able to glance at one gauge and get my depth, time and heading might be quite pleasant.
What do the rest of you think?