Re: Planespotting
 

They would charge an extra fee to fly on an aircraft with video monitoring.

Re: Planespotting
 

:(

I wonder if those were released through some kind of FOI request made by some idiot who thought that the public had a "right to know" or if they were leaked.

Re: Germanwing Aircraft Crashes in French Alps
 

Clearly the only solution is to catheterize all pilots.

Or give them a key to the door?

Re: Germanwing Aircraft Crashes in French Alps
 

I guess the thinking is that, if you give them a key, it can be taken from them?

Still, this obviously needs more thought than just having the pilot doing a Fred Flintstone trying to open the damn thing.

Awful for him in particular I would think. He would have known sooner / longer than the rest (I assume).

Re: Germanwing Aircraft Crashes in French Alps
 

That would then get us back to giving a way for anyone who got the key to open the door. The solution is what some US airlines do, where there are only two flight crew, have a cabin crew member go on the flight deck if one of the pilots needs a potty break.

Re: Germanwing Aircraft Crashes in French Alps
 

At a certain point more people will have died from pilot suicide than in 9/11 (probably not that far off).

Diapers?

Re: Germanwing Aircraft Crashes in French Alps
 

Some European ones do; it appears Lufthansa (and its offshoots) isn't one of them.

Re: Germanwing Aircraft Crashes in French Alps
 

Yep. And I suspect that will soon become a mandatory procedure for all airlines.

Re: Germanwing Aircraft Crashes in French Alps
 

The A320 is designed with safeguards to allow emergency entry if a pilot inside is unresponsive, but the override code known to the crew does not go into effect — and indeed goes into a lockdown — if the person inside the cockpit specifically denies entry, according to an Airbus training video and a pilot who has six years of experience with the jets.

Alone at controls, co-pilot sought to 'destroy' the plane

I suspect regulators assumed that would allow the crew access while keeping the terrorists out. If they don't do it that way, then a gun to the head of a crew member or a terrorist with a bomb may possibly gain access.

In my opinion, the current way is usually a better option. In the US a 2nd person must always be in the cockpit at all times but I don't think that helps too much since I suspect a pilot can probably easily overpower a stewardess or anybody if he has a gun.

Re: Germanwing Aircraft Crashes in French Alps
 

That's why in the UK all crew are screened the same as the passengers, to try and prevent weapons getting on board.

Re: Germanwing Aircraft Crashes in French Alps
 

And in the US, some want to give pilots guns.

Re: Germanwing Aircraft Crashes in French Alps
 

But not cameras.

Re: Germanwing Aircraft Crashes in French Alps
 

Maybe lapel cameras.:sneaky:

Re: Germanwing Aircraft Crashes in French Alps
 

Well, if you count 9/11 itself as "pilot suicide" (among many other things) then that has definitely already happened ... :sneaky:

Re: Germanwing Aircraft Crashes in French Alps
 

Maybe we can avoid the whole problem by skipping the prodigy pre-K pilots and going for fully grown adults who use a toilet or restroom like the rest of us:p