Recommendation Date
Recipient Name
MoT
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On 27 July 2016 the Commission recommended to the Secretary for Transport that he promote, through the appropriate ICAO forum, the need for cockpit video recorders and/or other forms of data capture in the cockpits of certain classes of helicopter to address this safety issue.
Reply Text
The Ministry considers that such a recommendation is premature as the costs and benefits of such a recommendation have not been canvassed. The Ministry appreciates that the Commission may have been minded to make such a recommendation because of the lack of available data. The Ministry suggests that prior to making a recommendation, some more work should be undertaken to determine the benefits and costs of flight data and video recording in cockpits.
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