I'm not a professional pilot, however I can see the objections that pilots would have to cameras on the flight deck especially if the management were able to access & store the digital information during or after each flight & use as a stick to beat the flight crew at evaluation time etc... (V1 rotate... zzzzzz... Captain? etc
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But, I can also see how useful this information would potentially be to crash investigators (ref sept 11)
Perhaps if the digital video information was stored in with the CVR and overwritten on each consecutive flight & only legally accessed on reporting of an incident it might be a way around the privacy issues?
Of course only my 2c...
FT