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Re:Alaska 737 cockpit voice recorder data erasure renews saf... by xethos on Monday January 08, 2024 @12:06PM (#38914956)
Are you willing to have a camera pointed at you - not other drivers, you - as you drive to and from work every day? People's lives are at stake, driving is objectively more dangerous than flying, and it can be tied to work by the simple reason that you wouldn't be behind the wheel if you weren't heading to or from work.

This smacks of "Privacy for me but not for thee", to say nothing of the effect it would have on the perpetual low-level pilot shortage due to things like working conditions.

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Re:Alaska 737 cockpit voice recorder data erasure renews saf... by otterley on Monday January 08, 2024 @12:15PM (#38915073)
It depends. Am I at work and being paid as a professional driver?

> the perpetual low-level pilot shortage due to things like working conditions.

There are a lot of pilots “waiting in the wings” at smaller carriers, currently being paid peanuts, to get nice cushy jobs at major carriers with union protections who won’t mind having their voice recorded and stored for 24 hours while on the job behind the yokes.

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Re:Alaska 737 cockpit voice recorder data erasure renews saf... by sokoloff on Monday January 08, 2024 @12:28PM (#38915260)
The vast majority of pilots at those regional carriers are already represented by a union: ALPA.*1

That union opposes cockpit video monitoring and has opposed the extension of CVR recordings.*2

*1 - https://www.alpa.org/en/about-alpa/our-pilot-groups

*2 - https://www.flyingmag.com/faa-proposes-extending-cockpit-voi...

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