Ordinary watches have a movement. Revolutionary watches start a movement. Welcome to the revolution in global flight navigation, sparked by the D2 Charlie aviator watch.
With a rich array of color mapping, weather, waypoint reference and flight logging features, D2 Charlie sets the standard for on-wrist situational reference and backup navigation in your cockpit. You can pan and zoom the watch’s moving map to quickly expand your view of airports, waypoints, terrain, obstacles or weather activity along your route of flight. Wherever you travel, smart notifications¹ (emails, text messages, alerts and more) can display on the watch to help you stay in the know while on the go. And between flights, you can use the latest sport watch features — including Elevate™ wrist-based heart rate monitoring¹, daily activity tracking¹, training metrics and more — to keep up with your personal fitness goals.
Premium Materials, Elegant Style
Crafted of premium-grade materials and featuring a titanium bezel with diamond-like carbon (DLC) finish, the D2 Charlie aviator watch is available in 2 distinctive versions. One features a vintage-style leather band, and the other sports a deluxe brushed titanium bracelet. Each watch has a bright, high-resolution, full-color Garmin Chroma Display™ with LED backlighting to assure great readability in all lighting conditions. For added scratch resistance, both versions incorporate a high-strength domed sapphire lens. QuickFit® bands let you reconfigure the watch for any occasion, activity or adventure — no tools required.
Detail-rich Moving Map
In aviation mode, the D2 Charlie watch’s detailed moving map display and extensive databases help you visualize your flight path in relation to nearby navaids, airports, intersections and VFR reference features such as roads, cities, bodies of water and more. Enhanced Direct-to capabilities allow you to add multiple waypoints and fly a Direct-to course to any waypoint in your flight plan. And while in flight, you can view your route on the GPS-referenced dynamic map display — or follow the HSI course needle to your destination. By setting your own waypoints, you can also navigate easily to any location not included in the database. In fact, you can even create Mark on Target waypoints to easily reference — and return to — locations over which you’ve flown. There’s also a dedicated Nearest button on the watch that will locate the closest airport if you need to land quickly for a mechanical issue, weather precaution or passenger emergency.
Weather with Radar Overlay
For at-a-glance updates on the weather for your departure airport, your destination airport or anywhere in between, D2 Charlie works wirelessly with your compatible smartphone to keep you informed. You can access location-based meteorological reports (METARs) and terminal forecast (TAF) information — including winds, visibility, precipitation, cloud cover, temperature, dew point, barometric pressure and more. A quick “hot key” shortcut — pressing Direct-to and Down keys — brings up high-resolution radar graphics (NEXRAD)³, overlaid on the moving map. So, you can easily access the data you need for weather trend awareness and smart preflight decision making.
Flight Logging Is Automatic
With wireless connectivity to your smartphone, the D2 Charlie series can make quick work of flight logging and other record keeping tasks. During takeoff, the watch will detect your aircraft’s change in altitude and automatically initiate the logbook function — recording date, duration, total flight time and route. Then after your flight is complete, it will sync this logbook data via your smartphone to flyGarmin.com and the Garmin Pilot app.
Your Flight Planning Connection
In addition to creating waypoints and routes on your watch, you can easily use Connext® wireless technology to transfer and sync flight plans from your iPad® tablet or other compatible mobile device running our Garmin Pilot app. So, your data entry and planning time are kept to a minimum. The watch can also provide GPS position information to compatible Garmin Pilot-equipped devices. What’s more, you can connect D2 Charlie via a Wi-Fi® network to wirelessly update the free lifetime databases that come with your watch. A compatible ADS-B “In” device, such as our portable GDL® 39 receiver, will further enable the Garmin Pilot app to relay notifications of potential traffic or terrain conflicts — as well as other situational alerts — to your D2 Charlie watch.
Customizable Features
With its customizable data fields, D2 Charlie makes it easy to access the data that’s most important to you — such as current GPS groundspeed, GPS track, distance from waypoints/airports, estimated time en route, bearing, glide ratio and other key flight parameters. A handy altitude alerting feature can be set to notify you when reaching or leaving a preselected altitude. And you can also select a stopwatch function for timing approaches or flight legs. A baro-based O2 Altitude alert feature vibrates to remind you when supplemental oxygen is required at operating altitudes above 12,500’. Plus, various other timer functions with vibrating alerts can be set to let you know when it’s time to switch fuel tanks or perform other time-critical tasks.
Advanced Multisport Features
Beyond its full range of flight-related functions, D2 Charlie also offers a complete feature set of sports/training, fitness and outdoor navigation tools. You can tap into an array of physiological metrics, running dynamics, fitness tracking features and more — so you can monitor your workout stats, measure your progress and help avoid injury. Special preloaded activity profiles are provided for golfing, swimming, running, biking, hiking, rowing, skiing and more. Plus, with the free Garmin Connect™ Mobile app, you can download more than 40,000 golf courses worldwide for precise course data, and use your watch as a digital scorecard. For added health and fitness motivation, also download advanced workouts and training plans to your watch from our Garmin Connect™ online community.
More Ways to Stay Connected
Smart notifications² through the D2 Charlie watch let you leave your phone in your pocket or flight bag — and still quickly screen phone calls, texts and other messages right on your watch. It also gives you access to automatic uploads and social media sharing via Garmin Connect as well as audio prompts, music controls and more. Also, when wirelessly connected to our VIRB® series of HD action cameras, your D2 Charlie watch has the ability to remotely start/stop video, view elapsed time for active recording, and even capture high-quality still photos — while live video is being recorded. You can even simultaneously control multiple VIRB cameras to capture the action from multiple angles.
Physical & Performance
| Display size | 1.2" (30.4 mm) diameter |
| Display resolution | 240 x 240 pixels |
| GPS | Yes |
| Weight | silicone band: 89 g |
| Display type | sunlight-visible, transflective memory-in-pixel (MIP) |
| Battery life | Smartwatch mode: Up to 12 days GPS mode: Up to 20 hours UltraTrac™ mode: Up to 35 hours without wrist heart rate |
Maps & Navigation
| Memory/History | 16 GB |
Features
| 3-axis compass with HSI (horizontal situation indicator) | Yes |
| Touch and/or button lock | Yes |
| GPS coordinates | Yes |
| Audio prompts | Yes |
| Sleep monitoring (monitors total sleep and periods of movement or restful sleep) | Yes |
| Auto CourseView updates | Yes |
| Downloadable training plans | Yes |
| Measures shot distance (calculates exact yardage for shots from anywhere on course) | Automatic |
| Heart rate (real-time during rests, interval and session stats during rests, and automatic heart rate download post-swim) | yes (with HRM-Tri™ and HRM-Swim™) |
| Compatible with Varia™ radar (rear-facing radar) | Yes |
| SwingTempo | No |
| Task timers (2, 5, 10, 15, 20 and 30 minutes) | No |
| Pool swim workouts | Yes |
| Race an Activity | Yes |
| Hot keys | Yes |
| Activity history on watch | Yes |
| Ground contact time and balance (shows how much time, in the running motion, your foot is on the ground rather than in flight and lets you check your running symmetry) | yes (with compatible accessory) |
| Auto max HR | Yes |
| Compatible with Varia Vision™ (head-mounted display) | Yes |
| HR alerts | Yes |
| Foot pod capable | Yes |
| Compatible with Vector™ (power meter) | Yes |
| Training Effect (anaerobic) | Yes |
| Vertical speed | Yes |
| Lactate threshold (through analysis of your pace and heart rate, estimates the point where your muscles start to rapidly fatigue) | yes (with compatible accessory) |
| Customizable data pages | Yes |
| Race an activity | Yes |
| Finish time | Yes |
| Elevation profile | Yes |
| Configurable lap alerts | Yes |
| Automatic sync (automatically transfers data to Garmin Connect) | No |
| PlaysLike distance | No |
| Virtual Partner | Yes |
| V02 max | Yes |
| Customizable alerts | Yes |
| NEXRAD on moving map | Yes |
| Back to start | Yes |
| Vertical oscillation and ratio (the degree of 'bounce' in your running motion and the cost-benefit ratio with stride length) | yes (with compatible accessory) |
| Training Load (your total training load for the last 7 days calculated from estimated EPOC) | Yes |
| Altimeter with adjustable baro setting | Yes |
| Physical size | 51 x 51 x 17.5 mm |
| Move bar (displays on device after a period of inactivity; walk for a couple of minutes to reset it) | Yes |
| Compatible with BaseCamp™ | Yes |
| Chronograph | No |
| Available gym activity profiles | Indoor Rowing |
| Ambient light sensor | No |
| Bezel Material | titanium |
| Touch-targeting (touch target on display to see the distance to any point) | No |
| Hazards and course targets | Yes |
| Stroke type detection (freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly) | Yes |
| TruSwing™ compatible | Yes |
| UltraTrac mode | Yes |
| Yardage to F/M/B (distance to front, middle and back of green) | Yes |
| Calendar | Yes |
| Barometric altimeter | Yes |
| Weather | Yes |
| Auto Lap® | Yes |
| Sunrise/sunset times | Yes |
| Floors climbed | Yes |
| % HR max | Yes |
| % HRR | Yes |
| Case material | fiber-reinforced polymer |
| Available outdoor recreation profiles | Hiking, Climbing, Mountain Biking, Skiing, Snowboarding, XC Skiing, Stand Up Paddleboarding, Rowing, Jumpmaster, Tactical |
| TracBack® | Yes |
| Storm alert | Yes |
| Water rating | 10 ATM |
| Advanced Vector support | No |
| Handicap scoring | No |
| Audible alerts | No |
| Color display | Yes |
| Multiple bike profiles | No |
| HR zones | Yes |
| Stat tracking (strokes, putts per round, greens and fairways hit) | Yes |
| Connectivity | Bluetooth® Smart, ANT+®, Wi-Fi® with sapphire editions |
| Find My Phone | Yes |
| Stride length (real time) | yes (with compatible accessory) |
| Custom targets | No |
| Downloadable cartography support | Yes |
| Swim efficiency (SWOLF) | Yes |
| Available run profiles | Running, Indoor Running, Trail Running |
| Bike lap and lap maximum power (with power sensor) | Yes |
| Stopwatch | Yes |
| Run workouts | Yes |
| Open-water swim metrics (distance, pace, stroke count/rate, stroke distance, calories) | Yes |
| Training Effect (aerobic) | Yes |
| Worldwide airport database(s) | Yes |
| Waypoint information page | Yes |
| GPS speed and distance | Yes |
| Round-trip course creator (running/cycling) | Yes |
| Area calculation | yes (via Connect IQ™) |
| Find My Watch | Yes |
| Advanced workouts | Yes |
| Strava features (Beacon, live segments) | Yes |
| VIRB® Camera Remote | Yes |
| Smartphone compatibility | iPhone®, Android™ |
| Dual grid coordinates | Yes |
| TrueUp™ | Yes |
| Timer | Yes |
| Multiple time zones with Zulu/UTC | Yes |
| Courses | Yes |
| Compatible with Varia™ lights | Yes |
| Thermometer | Yes |
| Alarm clock | Yes |
| Wirelessly receive flight plans from Garmin Pilot™ | Yes |
| Group LiveTrack | Yes |
| Intensity minutes | Yes |
| Interval training | Yes |
| Gyroscope | No |
| Time/distance alerts (triggers alarm when you reach goal) | Yes |
| Compatible with Garmin Connect™ Mobile | Yes |
| Touchscreen | No |
| Virtual starting line | No |
| Preloaded topographical maps | Yes |
| Speed and cadence sensor support (with sensor) | yes (ANT+® and Bluetooth® sensors) |
| Sun and moon information | yes (via Connect IQ™) |
| Night vision mode | No |
| Available swim profiles | Pool Swimming, Open Water Swimming |
| Tempo Training | No |
| Move IQ™ | Yes |
| Records heart rate while swimming | yes (HRM-Tri™ or HRM-Swim™) |
| Garmin Elevate™ wrist heart rate monitor | Yes |
| HRV stress test (measures your heart rate variability while standing still, for 3 minutes, to provide you with an estimated stress level; the scale of this is 1 to 100; low scores indicate lower stress levels) | yes (with compatible accessory) |
| GLONASS | Yes |
| Smart notifications | Yes |
| Sight 'N Go | Yes |
| Automatic daylight saving time | Yes |
| Projected waypoint | Yes |
| Bread crumb trail in real time | Yes |
| Time/date | Zulu/UTC, 12/24h, day/date |
| Rewards (coins) | No |
| Calories burned | Yes |
| Customizable activity profiles | Yes |
| Segments (Live, Garmin) | Yes |
| Connect IQ™ (downloadable watch faces, data fields, widgets and apps) | Yes |
| HR Broadcast (broadcasts HR data over ANT+™ to paired devices) | Yes |
| Cadence (provides real-time number of steps per minute) | Yes |
| Controls smartphone music | Yes |
| Power meter compatible (displays power data from compatible third-party ANT+™-enabled power meters) | Yes |
| Total ascent/descent | Yes |
| Cycle Map (routable cycling-specific street map) | Yes |
| PinPointer | No |
| Step counter | Yes |
| 60-minute activity goal | No |
| Trail run auto climb | Yes |
| Chores | No |
| Barometric trend indicator with Storm Alert | Yes |
| Automatic rep counting | No |
| LiveTrack | Yes |
| Moving Map with aviation airports, navaids, roads, bodies of water and more | Yes |
| HR calories | Yes |
| Point-to-point navigation | Yes |
| Anchor Alarm | No |
| Yardage to layups/doglegs | Yes |
| Auto Pause® | Yes |
| Running dynamics | Yes |
| Full vector map | No |
| Tack assist mode | No |
| Worldwide NAVAID and Intersection database(s) | Yes |
| Available cycling profiles | Biking, Indoor Biking |
| Future elevation plot | Yes |
| QuickFit™ watch band compatible | yes (26 mm) |
| Accelerometer | Yes |
| Recovery time | Yes |
| Around Me mode | Yes |
| Hunt/fish calendar | yes (via Connect IQ™) |
| Drill logging | Yes |
| Preloaded with 41,000 courses worldwide | Yes |
| Course guidance | Yes |
| Strap material | silicone, leather or titanium |
| GPS Time Sync | Yes |
| Countdown timer | No |
| Auto scroll | Yes |
| Analog hands | No |
| Round timer/odometer | Yes |
| Compass | Yes |
| Digital scorecard | yes |
| Lens Material | sapphire crystal |
| Cardio workouts | No |
| Green View with manual pin position | Yes |
| Performance condition (after running 6–20 minutes, compares your real-time condition to your average fitness level) | Yes |
| Strength workouts | No |
| Distance to destination | Yes |
| Training Status (lets you see if you’re training effectively by tracking your training history and fitness level trend.) | Yes |
| Manual lap | Yes |
| Distance traveled | Yes |
| Pool swim metrics (lengths, distance, pace, stroke count/rate, calories) | Yes |
| GPS-based distance, time and pace | Yes |
| Auto goal (learns your activity level and assigns a daily step goal) | Yes |
| Garmin AutoShot™ | Yes |
| Fitness Age | yes (in app) |
| Unit-to-unit route/location sharing | No |
| FTP (Functional Threshold Power) | yes (with compatible accessory) |
| Built-in barometer and tide tables | No |
| Race predictor | Yes |
In The Box
- D2 Charlie aviator watch with titanium band
- Black silicone watch band
- Trial subscription of Garmin Pilot™ app
- Charging/data cable
- Documentation
