Big Brother in the Cockpit - coming to UND!

Hopefully this data will be for research only, and not used against students and instructors. I can see the benefits, but this opens up a whole new can of worms in labor relations...

You can choose to look at it from a uniquely 'evil' point of view, or you can choose to see it for the massive enhancement to training that it actually is.

The military has been using cockpit cameras/tapes for decades to record in flight, and then analyze during the debrief. The last 6-9 years has brought widespredad use of digitally-based ACMI in the training pipeline, too. We can sit at a PC after the flight and watch a digital re-creation of the entire sortie, along with seeing just about every possible measurable parameter.

It's a phenomenally effective debriefing and learning tool. It allows students to see things at zero knots and 1G that they completely missed while their butts were in the seat in flight and having to think real time. In the AF, we say '50% of the learning takes place in the debrief' because of this.

The comments about "people will be worried about how it will look" are baseless, so far as my experience goes. Can't speak for the professional environment at UND, but the AF has a very strong sense of flight disciplne, regardless of if someone is looking over our shoulder. As such, very, very rarely have I ever seen a tape or ACMI used to bust someone who was suspected of doing something wrong. I have seen it used many more times to clear someone who was accused of doing something wrong and didn't.
 
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