Asking because of Air India 171. Pilots and their unions are objecting to it because of “privacy” reasons. What do you think about it?

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    20 hours ago

    My understanding is that we already know that information, we have the technology to know when the switch is moved, not just when the system acts as if the switch is moved.

    I can’t imagine the fuel cutoff switches aren’t monitored, and if they aren’t that’s something that should already exist.

    Once again, I will point out, and I really hope I’m not jinxing it, but the USA doesn’t have cockpit cameras, and even still has a pretty exceptional safety record.

    And I understand blame is not the intent, but pardon me if I don’t believe that information won’t be used against the crew. This pretty much killed single pilot operations, so now the other solution is to put the crews under a magnifying glass until you can find more problems you can use.