Originally Posted by
Old Carthusian
AirTren
No that isn't my thought at all. Perception works differently for different people and some actually process audio signals quicker than visual signals.
We've established earlier that the sounds of a couple or several words needed to describe the new position of a cockpit control takes several seconds.
Therefore, the perception of those sounds, those words, cannot take less time than it took to produce them, and that is several seconds.
I don't think a person that needs more than the above several seconds to perceive a new position of a cockpit control will be considered as not having vision problems and allowed to fly commercial passenger airplanes..
Furthermore you don't transform an audio signal into a visual signal unless that is what you want to do. This is a fallacy - sound is sound and is interpreted as such.
The transform is done involuntarily, and unconsciously. You may not be aware it happens.
The change of the position of a cockpit control is a spacial element, which can be perceived directly without translation, only visually, or tactile. An articulated sound perception - a series of words - is not a spacial perception. Therefore a translation/transform takes place.