Garmin has introduced the D2 Air X10, a GPS watch that lets pilots take calls and use their smartphone’s voice assistant to send texts, ask questions, and more.
These connected capabilities join the other aviation tools in Garmin’s D2 Air series, including weather, direct-to navigation capabilities, airport information, automatic flight logging, Pulse Ox.
The watch also comes with a suite of health, wellness, and fitness features, according to Garmin officials, as well as a battery life of up to seven days.
What’s new
- Make and take phone calls with the watch
- Compatible with Siri, Google Assistant, or Bixby, pilots can use their smartphone’s voice assistant to send texts, ask questions, control compatible smart home devices and more.
A flight system on your wrist
The D2 Air X10 includes preflight, in-flight, and postflight features and tools to assist pilots in navigation and enhance situational awareness, according to Garmin officials, including:
- Direct-to navigation lets pilots navigate straight to an airport or waypoint in the preloaded worldwide database directly from the watch or choose the Nearest function to activate a direct course to a nearby airport
- The instrument-like horizontal situation indicator (HSI) course needle allows the pilot to see if the aircraft is left or right of the desired flight path
- The barometric altimeter can alert them when they’ve reached their desired altitude
- Aviation alerts like time, distance, altitude, and a fuel timer are also available on the D2 Air X10 during flight
- Automatically starts tracking flights on takeoff, then automatically transfers the date, duration, total flight time, and route to the user’s flyGarmin.com logbook
- Pilots can also transfer flight plans from the Garmin Pilot app to the D2 Air X10, and view the list of waypoints included in their route.
- It also offers aviation weather reports, including METARs and TAFs that allow pilots to see winds, visibility, barometric pressure and more before takeoff.
Health Monitoring, Fitness, and More
The D2 Air X10 also offers:
- Heart rate (with user-configurable alerts for high or low readings)
- Sleep monitoring
- Respiration
- Pulse Ox
- Stress tracking
- Sports apps, including walking, running, cycling, swimming, golf, hiking, strength training and more
- Preloaded workouts on create customized workouts.
- Music
- Garmin Pay
- Notifications for calls, texts, calendar reminders, social media updates, breaking news stories, and more.
The watch, which comes in black or ivory, can be used with either Android or Apple smartphones.
Suggested retail price is $549.99.
For more information: Garmin.com.