BBC - Inside The RAF - Chinook cockpit displays censored?

[Arkroyal]

In the last programme they blurred the face of one of the Tornado techs too.

I wonder why.

[exuw]

Maybe he was too ugly to be seen before the 21.00 watershed.

[sandiego89]

-RP Despite the censoring of the displays, you could see that the info being presented appeared to flight instruments and a map, and I still fail to see why that would be sensitive...

Because even with the flight instrument things like power/torque limits, G-loads, airspeed, vertical airspeed, rpm red lines etc don't need to be known by the general public, adversaries and us punteres here on pprune.

The quality and fidelity of the map on a MILITARY aircraft, even if it is commercial kit, is none of our buisiness. If measures such as this help keep our folks .1% safer it is fine by me. Don't get me wrong, I'm no security freak and some measures taken in the name of secuirty are indeed over the top and even ridiculous, but on the other extreeme complaining about a blurry display on a TV show.....

Agree with Ken it is much easier just to blur systems out.

[Eul0gy]

Might be that when recorded the refresh rate of the screens was causing flickering on the recording so they blurred them out for asthetic reasons

[Rhino power]

Originally Posted by sandiego89

extreeme complaining about a blurry display on a TV show.....

'extre(e!)me'? Hardly...

-RP

[StuartP]

In the last programme they blurred the face of one of the Tornado techs too.

I wonder why.

Most likely for no more sinister reason than that he didn't or wouldn't sign a model release to use his image. If he's recognisable and not in a public place then they need a model release to show him.