Ian
Thanks for your response, but I think that you are missing something. I have dual Skyviews, dual ADHARS, pitch and roll AP servos, heated pitot tube, ARINC 429, back up battery and I just replaced my GNX 327 (that had a timer built in) with your transponder and ADSB Box. I have all this great equipment and I never thought to check for an egg time. Yes, the clock does meet 91.205 IFR equipment MINIMUMS. That is the minimum. I don't know how you fly an approach, but for the last 30 years, I have hacked a timer. The last thing that I want to do while flying close to the ground, IMC, is to do mental gymnastics adding time to a clock to determine my procedure turn inbound or my miss approach time etc.
You point out that timers are generally only used in IFR flight, that they are included in most IFR GPS's and that it would be redundant. This is where it's better to have redundancy then not have it at all. Especially in the IFR environment. You want ease of use and convenience. I got the Skyview to use IFR!
The G1000's timer sounds poorly thought out and not user friendly. I have not used one myself. My brother has a Advanced 3500 and from a drop down menu he does a click of a button, a turn of a knob to set a time. One more click and it starts counting down to an alarm. To hack a time is even easier.
A simple timer/alarm has many uses. Such as:
Just about any IFR procedure
An alarm to remind you to switch tanks for fuel balance, set the alarm
ATC request a level off in a certain amount of time, hack the time
ATC give you an expect further (something) in X amount of time, hack the time
Doing a time/distance calc, hack the time
The list goes on
You may not chose to include a timer/alarm in the Skyview system, I wish you would of course, but after seeing all the choices you have made available and the degree of execution, to say it's that hard to put in an egg time is hard for me to believe.
Thanks for listening