.....bad design to make pilots rely too much on all kinds of warning "signals"
Remember the Avianca crash in 1984 ?
Quote ... and the little voice said in English, “Pull up, pull up!”. Well it was a warning system, right? The pilot, (and the flight recorder had this on it), inexplicably snapped back, “Shut up Gringo . . . !” and flipped off the warning voice . Minutes later the plane smashed into the mountain and everybody was dead.
I was once on a training flight where the instructor was constantly closing the throttles to set up an approach to a stall, for the various trainees who were on that detail, so of course the gear warning horn sounded and was instantly silenced by another crew member. On setting up the final landing, but before "gear down" had been called, the pilot again retarded the throttles to adjust his approach, and again the horn sounded and was again quickly cancelled ... I wondered what might have happened if that horn had, correctly, sounded in the landing flare !!
Just sayin', familiarity breeds contempt.