Is this true... Flight Deck conversations recorded???
Huggins to Rhodes, Day 6 Page 183
Huggins. Finally, subject to any reminder that Mr McLeish may give to me about anything I have left out, tape-recordings on the flight deck: was there a routine whereby flight decks were recorded? Crew control --
there were tape-recordings, were there not, of exchanges between crew control and individual pilots?
Rhodes. Yeah, I was going to say there are tape-recordings on the flight deck, but the tape-recordings in crew control, we tape every conversation between the pilots and the crew controllers, and those tapes are discarded after nine months to a year, I believe.......
My understanding of the CVR is that it is voice recording on a special device that can only be interogated by a special machine and there are limited machines in the world. I further understand CVR's are not routinely interogated, only when a serious event has occurred. I therefore don't believe Rhodes is referring to the CVR; what is he referring to or is this a typo?
Last edited by Liam Gallagher; 19th Oct 2009 at 12:15.