Best Overall Altimeter Watch: Garmin Instinct 2 Solar. Best Non-GPS Altimeter Watch: Suunto Core. Best Budget Altimeter Watch: Casio Pro Trek PRG-270-1. Best Altimeter Watch for Maps and Navigation: Garmin Fenix 7. The altimeter is alright, especially if I lock the sensor to altimeter mode and periodically calibrate the elevation using GPS or manually upon arriving at known elevations. It's not always accurate, sure, but afaik that's an expected behavior of barometric sensors. If I were you, however, I'd rather ask myself if the Instinct is the right Altimeter calibration mode and barometer mode setting are 2 different things. Yes, I know. Watch Mode. Sets the sensor used in watch mode. The Auto option uses both the altimeter and barometer…. renton82 over 3 years ago in reply to simonjharris +1. However, in short: Suunto fused alti works 10000 times better Keep one eye on the altimeter. its still creepy after many many years and its garmin masters cannot regulate its behaviour. watch out for irregular behaviour like when its starting to cheat on you. You can fall off the cliff after calibration. after calibration. Please garmin sort this. 60mtrs drop it was present in my old fenix 6 solar on Fenix 5X Plus software version 15.30 RingoSurf over 2 years ago Hello everyone, after the withdrawal of the 15.20 version due to the serious problems with the altimeter, what are the expected times for the "15.30" release ? thank you The altimeter and barometer readings on my Fenix 6X Pro are suddenly wildly inaccurate. The altimeter fluctuates from subterranean (e.g. -147m) to stratospheric (e.g.12,539m) - I'm at 30m above sea level. Even with calibration manually or via DEM/GPS at the start of an activity or during the day, the elevation changes rapidly. Forerunner over 5 years ago. I got the auto-calibration "NOT during the activity" set to ON. Additionally i set the calibration method to using DHM. However, when i check the altitude from time to time during the day, it gives me wrong readings that never get corrected. I thought, the watch would recalibrate automatically from time to time in Here's a 5 mile run, doing 3 laps around a neighborhood. Runkeeper shows the repetition quite well. Let's see how garmin does: And here is another one, this one just 2 laps. What I think is happening is that for some obtuse reason, garmin, king of the gps, is trusting it's own altimeter over gps when the gps is active. h3V9Y.

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