Recording in the air? Which state rules about recording apply in the clouds? But there is kind of a lost rights for passengers on board the flights. They can virtually tell you any rule and you have to follow wheather its rule or not. How can you argue with a crew member right or wrong? You will lose. Again, you have no rights once you get on the airplane. They can talk down to you but you can't talk down to them. And you will get no mercy from anyone. They will believe and follow the flight attendants over the passenger any day and so will the law.