Babbitt also indicated for the first time that he would be willing to consider random spot checks of cockpit voice recorders in planes that do not crash, just to monitor whether sterile cockpit violations are occurring.
Doesn't that pretty much do against all previous precedents for the use of cockpit voice recorders? Great, so in a career where you can already lose your job for a random medical issue, one misuse of the autopilot, checkride failure etc etc etc, now we're going to add spot checks of cockpit voice recorders. At least we're getting paid well....