The Navy is Issuing Every F/A-18 Pilot A Garmin Watch. Here's Why.

Because the cabin altimeter gauge of their aircraft was difficult to read due to its size and location, and "its audible warnings are ineffective through the flight envelope." Holly s_ _ t. All of these years later they are just now figuring it out ? 1991 I remember standing on the flight deck next to one of my squadrons F-14's and heard that a F-18 ejected near the carrier because it could not land on the carrier. I thought at the time, that it was odd, because I did not see a F-18 miss a abnormal amount of traps. I wonder now if this was not the issue.