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If pilots have a privacy problem with it, then put the onus on pilots to not forget to turn off the recording. If they forget, they should be held accountable,
by purpleblue 3y ago
If pilots have a privacy problem with it, then put the onus on pilots to not forget to turn off the recording. If they forget, they should be held accountable, ie lose their piloting license. Otherwise, they can't have it both ways, saying "we need our privacy" and also "it's not our fault we forgot to save the recording!"
- t0mas88 3y agoEasy to armchair quarterback. But it's quite reasonable for the overall workforce to have some objections against 24x7 recording of everything they say. I'm surprised the Hacker News crowd, often quite pro-privacy and anti tracking, does not understand that. And then suggesting to revoke the licenses of a crew that at one of the most stressful moments in their career, right after a major incident, forgets to pull a circuit breaker is ridiculous. Luckily that is not how things in the aviation industry are done.
- Ekaros 3y agoOn other hand I don't find 25 hours being recorded unreasonable with some of the very long flights we now have like 17-19 hours. Something early in flight could be critical clue in incident analysis.
- t0mas88 3y agoIndeed, the FAA has just proposed to start doing that for new aircraft. Same as Europe where this has been put in place for aircraft manufactured from 2021 onwards. The problem in the US is that there has also been more disciplinary use of the recordings (by the company, not the NTSB). In Europe things are a bit more strictly regulated and there wasn't any resistance to the 25 hour change.