Watch this Airbus sales video, critically:
https:
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMxuO77mdQo
I can't argue the value of the data.
Listen carefully as Airbus pitches the system as a way of being proactive and preemptive in utilizing the data to monitor pilots.
Listen as they say that dispatch is better qualified to decide whether to fly than the PIC, and consider that the video's showpiece flight was declined or aborted repeatedly, and those decisions were over-ridden by, tuh duh-
dispatch!
The Airbus-ians also spiel the benefits of 'more robust risk assessment' processes. The showpiece incident pilot flatly states that risk assessment was not, repeat- not! a consideration.
Listen as they talk about being eager to accept the request as it was a slow week, not mentioning that that subtle consideration may have been a pressure to fly when the PIC didn't think it wise to do so.
Listen as he narrates the reconstructed event and pick out the technical flaws in his actions, and there are many. Ask yourself why a skilled professional would make those errors and how a camera would have helped him.
The event pilot took a post incident check ride and was found competent and capable. Isn't that a more substantial test than a camera? If it's not, then the whole process is broken.
We can speculate about the benefits in investigation that would be forthcoming and the changes of practices that result of having that data, (NONE that I've seen) and what difference would the camera have made in the outcome? Also NONE.
I can't argue the advantage in investigation of having the data. It's the Big Brother side of it I resist, as N-O-T-H-I-N-G will be done to actually address the issues that kill EMSers, the Airbus video is spectacular in ignoring the actual issues while assigning virtue to demonstrated failures and pitching their camera system.
In my 45 years I have worked for operators who actively blamed pilots for issues. "That helicopter was fine until you took it out and broke it!" an actual management quote. I won't volunteer anything to people with that attitude to use to grief me. And they will do so, proactive and preemptively enforcing useless insubstantial trivia, like the fact that normal operation wears machinery...