Rainboe,
Well that's as maybe, how dare people abroad not take note of the UK Wireless and Telegraphy Act 19XX (Yawn)! We do live in the internet age, though, and accessing this stuff from abroad where the UK Wireless and Telegraphy Act 19XX (Yawn) doesn't really have much clout. This is a global village now, and we are all villagers. Unless MI5, MI6, in fact MI7-25 are going to monitor what we download and send suits to beat me up, we might as well learn to accept government imposed censorship is becoming a tad difficile!
I have no intention of such things filming me. Another enormous expense for the airlines (anything for an aeroplane is mind-bogglingly expensive) which will have to be recouped from the passengers (who are already being caned to death for tax revenues by all sorts of rapidly increasing taxes).
I can think of few accidents where a camera image would have been of any use whatsoever. Accidents like the Turkish 737 into Amsterdam would have revealed nothing new to a camera. Pilots have a right to privacy in their workplace.
http://www.pprune.org/tech-log/38695...er#post5158892
ATC tapes are a free-for-all but flight deck recorders are a personal privacy issue?
