With the recent announcement of the Fenix 5 series of watches, it seems highly likely that there will be a new release of Garmin's pilot watch D2 series, based on the Fenix 5. And given that one of the biggest complaints with Garmin's D2 Bravo (the latest in the series) is the lack of a basemap it is seems a foregone conclusion that the next generation of the D2 series will be based specifically on the Fenix 5X hardware (which comes with a basemap).
Although Garmin's Portable Aviation group are not active here in the forums per se, I do know that they lurk and read the forums on a semi-regular basis. With that in mind I would like to compile a list of features that we (the collective Garmin aviation users) would like to included with the next generation of the D2 pilot watch series. I will bug my contact at Garmin once in a while to remind them of this thread and hopefully we will see some of our input converted into actual features on the new watch.
The compile this list, I need your input so please reply to this thread with your thoughts (point form or paragraph or whatever) and I will continually compile the results, similar to what I am currently doing with the D2 Bravo bug and feature request thread. For best results please include the watch you use now, whether or not you are likely to by the next D2 series, the type of flying you do and how you use the watch day-to-day.
