feld on Nostr: The flight voice recorders on planes in the USA only have 2 hours of data in a ...
The flight voice recorders on planes in the USA only have 2 hours of data in a loop... what the fuck?
> CVRs were always highly contentious when introduced, due to exactly the situations you see today in the media. The pilot unions were concerned that these recordings would be released to the public, both out of context and releasing private personal data not relevant to the public - especially if anything at all salacious could be found.
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> Voice recording is a big privacy concern for the crew. This is our workplace, so you would be recording every conversation, also any idle chat of which there is quite a lot in cruise flight. The current voice recording is only accepted by the crew with the agreement that it is not stored, and can only be pulled after a serious incident in which case there will be a no-blame investigation.
okay but why don't we just record it anyway and we can use AI tech to automatically redact anything unrelated to the flight itself but the redacted content could still be retrieved if there's a serious incident that needs a full review?
> CVRs were always highly contentious when introduced, due to exactly the situations you see today in the media. The pilot unions were concerned that these recordings would be released to the public, both out of context and releasing private personal data not relevant to the public - especially if anything at all salacious could be found.
and
> Voice recording is a big privacy concern for the crew. This is our workplace, so you would be recording every conversation, also any idle chat of which there is quite a lot in cruise flight. The current voice recording is only accepted by the crew with the agreement that it is not stored, and can only be pulled after a serious incident in which case there will be a no-blame investigation.
okay but why don't we just record it anyway and we can use AI tech to automatically redact anything unrelated to the flight itself but the redacted content could still be retrieved if there's a serious incident that needs a full review?