Old pilots tend to be a deaf bunch,” as one AME so bluntly called it. He would know. For me, the tough reality is sinking in that I too may someday join the ranks of the hearing impaired—wrong in expecting that growing old would take longer.
So when reader and hearing-aid candidate Thomas Folk reached out and asked if hearing aids might work with typical avionics and ANR headsets, we asked for feedback and experience from others, as we’ll as from some industry audio experts on why it usually doesn’t work.