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Re:Alaska 737 cockpit voice recorder data erasure renews saf... by t0mas88 on Monday January 08, 2024 @02:11PM (#38916605)
Easy 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.

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Re:Alaska 737 cockpit voice recorder data erasure renews saf... by Ekaros on Monday January 08, 2024 @02:34PM (#38916910)
On 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.
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Re:Alaska 737 cockpit voice recorder data erasure renews saf... by t0mas88 on Monday January 08, 2024 @03:22PM (#38917577)
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.

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