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Garmin D2 Air: Logical, Well Rounded

That's the D2Air on an average-sized wrist. It's navigating to the nearest airport and the screen is set at full brightness splashed with direct sunlight.

Garmin has saturated the market with a long list of sports watches and the latest platform to serve double duty as a smart/ aviator watch is the D2 Air. Priced at $499, we think the Air is a welcome addition to the D2 series watch line. It has a lower profile and straightforward feature set, plus it reduces awkward bezel buttons from five to two in favor of a touchscreen.

We’ve been beta testing the new D2 Air and have grown to appreciate its simplicity, its ability to work we’ll as a fitness tracker and that it has just enough wrist-based aviation data for preflight planning. Here’s a field report.

Larry Anglisano

Editor in Chief Larry Anglisano has been a staple at Aviation Consumer since 1995. An active land, sea and glider pilot, Larry has over 30 years’ experience as an avionics repairman and flight test pilot. He’s the editorial director overseeing sister publications Aviation Safety magazine, IFR magazine and is a regular contributor to KITPLANES magazine with his Avionics Bootcamp column.