Re:Alaska 737 cockpit voice recorder data erasure renews saf...
by phil21 on Monday January 08, 2024 @12:03PM
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> The 2 hour thing was nothing but a technical limit (a literal loop of magnetic tape), and every other justification is retconning.
The 2 hour thing was 30 minutes when it was magnetic tape. It moved to digital a while ago and that's when the unions negotiated it to 2 hours after some incidents. The 2 hour limit was not based on anything technical that I'm aware of.
The privacy stuff is absolutely not reconning. Heck, it was pretty much the most talked about topic over the water cooler when I was doing some IT contract work for ALPA in my teens.
My memory is certainly fuzzy but not quite that fuzzy.
The 2 hour thing was 30 minutes when it was magnetic tape. It moved to digital a while ago and that's when the unions negotiated it to 2 hours after some incidents. The 2 hour limit was not based on anything technical that I'm aware of.
The privacy stuff is absolutely not reconning. Heck, it was pretty much the most talked about topic over the water cooler when I was doing some IT contract work for ALPA in my teens.
My memory is certainly fuzzy but not quite that fuzzy.