Cockpit video recording -- the time is now.

I think it's been pretty well established that the vast majority of
accidents are the result of pilot error.Â* A few examples:

Weather did not cause that accident; the pilot's decision to take off
into it or continue into it was the real cause.

That stall/spin was not the cause of the pilot's death, it was his poor
manipulation of the controls and his inability to recover from the
results of his actions that caused the stall/spin that killed him.

Mechanical failure was not the cause of that accident, it was the
pilot's decision to fly too close or into that thunder storm that caused
the in flight breakup.

I could go on but I won't.Â* Folks are simply too quick to place blame
anywhere but on themselves when the stuff hits the fan.Â* I won't likely
be crashing my Stemme due to flying up a box canyon under a decaying
cumulus (big down draft).Â* It's my firm belief that it was not the
weather that killed Bob Saunders, but his decision to fly his aircraft
into a situation from which there was little prospect of recovery.

On 10/1/2018 5:05 PM, Steve Koerner wrote:
On Monday, October 1, 2018 at 2:38:26 PM UTC-7, Dan Marotta wrote:
Is it April 1st already?

There is no way a camera will be in my cockpit, car, home, bathroom, you
name it, without my consent.Â* And I don't care what "safety" terms you
couch it in.Â* That's simply idiotic.

You're have the absolutely right to give up your privacy, but not mine.



Dan,

I'm a bit of a privacy freak too. Yet, I'm only talking about giving up my privacy when I have a reportable accident. Consider that it's already in the natural working of our society that we give up a whole lot of privacy when we have a serious accident.

And as you weigh such things, please consider your overall personal cost to benefit. We really need to start getting to the bottom of all these damn accidents. You may be the very person that has the next Stemme accident because it was never actually determined why Glider Bob crashed his Stemme. It just might have been a mechanical problem or a controllability problem that could have been determined had a video been available.

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Dan, 5J