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Old 03-06-2020, 07:46 AM
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Originally Posted by CaseTractor View Post
I’d suggest not doing this. You’d trust a government agency to do this accurately?

It would start with a time stamp and all flight numbers in that sector’s frequency range, maybe farther.

At any given time an idiot is JXing up guard, there are dozens of certificate holders with hundreds of years of professional service flying in that sector.

I for one would not want TO TRUST the FCC, FAA, homeland security, or any government agency going through a roster of certificate numbers including mine to not mistakenly accuse me of this “egregious” crime. Pulling cockpit voice recorders for all the planes in the sector, it could go there too.

I’m not saying this doesn’t need to be addressed, but it starts with each other in the plane. When one idiot is doing it, another idiot is passively letting it happen. We can do better ourselves, and should hope the government doesn’t step in to “help”. I’m afraid ASAP would just accelerate the process, possibly hurting those following the rules and/or not catching actual violators.
A simple voice analysis - comparing the offending transmissions to the thousands of samples we all have left on ATC tapes at towers and centers in any given year - can match the suspects to the recordings in a manner very much like facial recognition software can identify people. The issue is more one of getting people motivated to do it than any technical one.

And clearly, it would be preferable to simply get the other pilot in the cockpit to tell the idiot doing it to quit, but judging by results, the other pilot(s) either lack the balls and/or brains to do that themselves. If they won’t ultimately the government will.
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