Why are cockpit alarms still so distracting and unable to be silenced?
A stall condition needs to be handled now, and once it's handled, the alarm will go away. What you don't want to happen is you are in an approaching stall condition, the pilot hits a &quot;silence&quot; button while the situation gets worse without the plane telling them.
An emergency is &quot;AVIATE, NAVIGATE, COMMUNICATE&quot; in that order. Fly the plane first, point it where you want to go second, and third, only if you have time/resources, is to talk to ATC about it. The pilot should be fixing the problem first, focus on flying the plane, ATC can wait.
They can't be turned off for that reason. Deal with the problem and the alarm goes away, you don't want to silence the alarm and forget about it. There is some merit to &quot;overloading&quot;, where multiple alarms are happening at the same time, or when the pilot focuses on a low priority item and forgets to fly the airplane (Eastern Air 401).