Indeed, 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 onwa

Indeed, 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.