Originally Posted by Casanova
This is not the end of the road though if you can prove that your hearing does not affect you in the environment in which you hope to work.
Now that is a novel concept. Regrettably, there are hundreds of people who would qualify to fly professionally if that were only true but are prevented from doing so owing to a failure to meet specific standards set by the regulatory authorities. An ability to actually be able to perform the task does not even come into it and there is no process of appeal whereby it can be tested, nor does there seem to be under future EASA medical standards!!
As for the hearing, for Class 1 certification you will need to take an Audiogram, whereby each ear is tested separately over a wide range of frequencies at varying volumes and plotted onto a graph which tells the doctors whether you meet the standards required.
(My original type read "each ear is
tasted separately"
- now I would pay good money to video that!)