First-Time Hearing Aid Trial – Airline Pilot with Reverse-Slope SSHL

Hello Ramzi

During covid I experienced SSHL in my right ear (complete loss). Flying the Airbus is not a problem since we use a HOT mic, i.e. hearing both ATC and co-pilot. However, I recently switched to the B756 with no HOT mic which is causing communication issues. Using my left working ear I need to prioritize listening to ATC or the CA, or place the headset half over my ear to hear both, but with reduced quality.

I am therefore on a quest to find the best solution to maybe integrate my Bluetooth Oticon hearing aids with a headset. Following is a posting I found from different website. Let me know how you progress?

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The plan now is to try hearing aids with Telecoil program and have microphone turned off. This should prevent all feedback as mic will be inoperative. The Telecoil should sense the electrical field from the speaker coils in the headset ear cups just like when using Telecoil for handset on a land-line telephone. I have LightSpeed Zulu3 ANR aviation headset. Trial fitting for hearing aids will be in a few weeks. Audiologist will allow me to trial for several weeks so I can test in the airplane.

Do you have possibility to connect your headset to external transmitters (which are also mics in another circumstances) like Edu Mic or Phonak’s RogerOn?

Hey Bimodal

I am not familiar with Edu Mic or Phonak. Have you had any success?

Thanks

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