What hypocrisy are you talking about? You've steered this discussion off line. Flight deck CVR tapes are released to the public, why not ATC tapes? That same public has funded ATC and paid the NATs staff- I'm afraid the public 'has a right' to hear the results of its investment! If you are going to advcate cameras on the flight deck, then let's do the job properly and have cameras on ATC controllers so we can ensure that no Uberlingens happen again with controllers left alone manning the shop. Good idea, eh?
As far as I am concerned, my CVR recordings, which were meant to be totally private and only made use of if no pilots survived to tell the tale, can be subpoenad and published for the public's predilection. It stops there. I will not have a camera recording 'my office', including recording what could be the final moments of the pilots, for the greater entertainment of the guffawing public, because we all know such recordings will not remain private (as we were assured in the industry the CVR recordings would be- what became of that then?).
I seriously resent your remark about 'incompetence'. You are indeed a fool. For a crew flying perfectly normally then crash a few seconds later under very stressful circumstances- you don't understand what you are talking about and I suggest you shut it! You are obviously a desk bound engineer of some sort and have no operational literacy to make such a sweeping (and cruel) idiotic statement. Not even ATC. What do you know that you can step in here with such blundering comments?
Last edited by Rainboe; 14th December 2009 at 20:41.