David Warren, inventor of the flight voice and data recorder
bbc.com
bbc.com
interesting I never thought this from the pilots perspective.
The objections were the same.
I've heard similar privacy rumblings about putting 'dashcams' in cockpits, but as long as they're not streaming and only accessible either (a) in post-crash debris, or (b) some kind of NTSB 'warrant' for near-misses, I think that may lessen concerns.
A few years ago I was severely immunocompromised and treated in an isolated hospital room. Too frequently a doctor or nurse would forget to wash their hands before touching me or my IV line, or would then pick up a pen they had dropped on the floor, or would touch their beeper, or would sneeze into their hands, or some other lapse in hygene. One time an unusual situation and distracted nurse led to my IV line having a large amount of air in the line, which would have been pumped into my bloodstream if I hadn't stopped the machine.
Of course, the patient would need to be convinced that it was worth the loss of privacy. And the nurses would need to be convinced that individual nurses would not be blamed.
Not using that information to assign blame is crucial. It must only be used to evaluate changes in procedures and equipment that will improve outcomes.
Legislation that guarantees that such recordings are inadmissible in court would help a lot.
As an Australian who left the country owing to a perceived lack of R&D opportunities far later on, in 2001, and had never heard this sentiment articulated, I found this quote very interesting. It is a shame that, even to date, stories behind the many Australian inventions are not taught in Australian schools. We are responsible for so many interesting things: wifi, samba, rsync, Wikileaks, TCP half-open scanning, rubber hose cryptography, plastic money, wave-piercing multihulls, power boards, ultrasound, pacemakers, feature-length film, photolithography, refrigeration, permaculture, plain tobacco packaging, swim briefs, medical penicillin, bionic ears, electric drills, winged keels, plastic lenses, inflatable emergency rafts, New Zealand, etc.
Perhaps the Australian government is to blame: having been outside for so long, looking in, it seems they (especially one of the two major parties) consistently de-fund, de-nature and over-regulate the educational and cultural sectors of society while failing to provide viable avenues for R&D to retain talent in the country. Their biggest 'program' seems to be reducing tax on large-scale R&D expenses ... perhaps not realising that the very nature of Australia's economy makes it a terrible place (~zero supply chain, very high costs, very small market, no VC, miles from anywhere, timezone unique in the English speaking world) to perform most R&D.
>"But unfortunately we didn't prang - we just landed safely…"
Priceless.
Looks to me that he was one of the first audio pirates as well...
Well the point of the article is that he kind of did....
The story itself also fails at inverted pyramid, which is something you'd expect from a piece under "News/Australia" on the site, but I guess they just put in in the wrong place, and inverted pyramid itself is a concept that became forgotten in an ad-supported journalism era.
The writer prioritizes the factual information to be conveyed in the news story by importance. The most essential pieces of information are offered in the first line, which is called the lead (or summary lead).
https://www.thoughtco.com/inverted-pyramid-composition-16910...
Theres also a different intended use.
You always get issues like this with 'firsts', theres very little new under the sun, so the lines are always going to be arbitrary.
As I said, you always get this with 'firsts'.
So it's saved my life as much as an airbag: not directly from personal experience, but by saving the source of information about a crash and improving overall safety as a result.
Or, at the very least, something that's saved the life of virtually every person likely to read BBC news. ;)
As it turns out, it's the "black box" flight recorder. A great invention to be sure, but hardly of the scale just described.
He had never left the Philippines and therefore had never experienced winter weather in his life.
I suppose it should have been obvious in hindsight that international travel would be a huge expense for a cab driver in a developing country, but I never really considered it before then.
Why is that more true of the UK than anywhere else? We're connected to the continent via train so can in principle get to anywhere interesting that way. Plus the UK is fairly compact and interesting in its own right, it isn't exactly mile after mile of uninhabited wasteland.
If you want to go from say, Montreaux (Switzerland) to Evian (France) or Aosta (Italy) you can hop it your car and drive there in very little time. It's not _quite_ that easy from here.
Given you can get half way across the world without flying the total number of people who haven't left these isles should be a bit lower.
I agree that world-wide "most" is likely correct.
[1] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/news/a-quarter-of-britons...
It's not a terrible figure.
In reality, if planes were less safe, fewer people would ride them, which would probably end up killing less (due to lower pollution).