For a checkride, I planned to drop my bombs within 5 seconds of planned. If leading a package, if the plan called up to push at 14:17:38, then I could not afford to misread my analog watch and push at 14:18:38...something someone else did when I was a wingman and required to maintain radio silence, years ago.
By the late 80s, I took a large digital watch and used a clip to attach it to the glare shield. I used an analog watch on my wrist for its stopwatch.
In F-111s, we finally went digital in the cockpit around 1990-93. You could push the throttles and see the computer’s idea of your time of arrival change. I continued to carry and use my large, clip-on digital watch and my wristwatch, but they were for backup. There is no way in hell anyone in the space program was relying on their wristwatch to adjust timing in 2006, as Kelly claims.
I guess a liar lies because that is what they are. They cannot stop with lying about politics. It is their nature to be dishonest - about everything.
I prefer analog gauges for things like altimeters, engine rpm & other such things, where the trend is more important that a specific number.
I never dropped bombs, usually more worried about picking up a reciprocal heading and trying not to overshoot it .
Just as analog engine gauges show position and trend (most are designed to be “center hung” so as to simplify scans, an analog clock shows you where you are graphically in a 1 or 2 minute turn, or a 270 degree turn, for that matter.
I believe the fighter and bomber pilots of the future will be more worried about eye strain and carpel tunnel from their hours at the computer linking them to an aircraft many miles away. And GA flying will only exist in history books.