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ALPA Quick to Attack NTSB Video Recording Idea
I found it interesting that it's okay for pilots to make their own videos in the cockpit and post them to YouTube (you'll remember the outrage on this forum at the idea of making this illegal) but having a video recorder that may help with accident analysis is not okay. (www.ainonline.com) More...
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ALPA'S RESTANCE TO A COCKPIT VIDEO RECORDER ARE WELL FOUNDED. YEARS AGO WHEN THE COCKPIT VOICE RECORDER WAS PROPOSED, ALPA RESISTED THAT ADDITION ON GROUNDS THAT RECORDINGS WOULD INEVITABLY END UP IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN RATHER THAN BE KEPT CONFIDENTIAL AND AVAILABLE ONLY TO INVETIGATING AGENCIES. THE RELEASE/LEAKING OF RECORDINGS HAS PROVEN TO BE THE CASE IN MANY INVETIGATIONS. NO, I REPEAT, NO ONE WANTS THEIR LAST WORDS BEFORE CERTAIN DEATH SPLASHED AROUND THE POPULAR MEDIA. THE FAA PROMISED THAT IT WOULD NEVER HAPPEN. BUT IT HAS. AND THESE VIOLATIONS OF TRUST ARE THE GROUNDS FOR THE CURRENT RESISTANCE TO THE VIDEO PROPOSAL.
Well, you know that the more morbid these days, the more it is clamored for. I remember the days of the CVR arguments and you are correct in what the FAA said but they get leaked by an unknown party for all to hear, when at most, investigators and family should be the only ones tat hear. Many think that is just a typical ALPA argument to be fussing about something
I can understand also the problems with items being released and there seems no end to it. The public doesn't always have the right to know either they just think they do. If the negotiations during the Union ones were recorded and then released all H.... would break loose. Those who would not understand the give and take would jump into it big time.
And does your computer type in anything other than CAPS????????????????? WOW
