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December 10th, 2004, 01:51
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| Newbie Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Phoenix,AZ
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|  Auditory Learning Disabilities Will a auditory learning disability affect a private pilots chances to fly commercially? |
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December 10th, 2004, 02:06
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| Moderator  Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Socal
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| Re: Auditory Learning Disabilities Do you have a problem understanding words when they are spoken rapidly? Or is it a case of you have a hard time retaining information from lectures and resentations? I would say if you have a problem understanding words, then this could pose an issue in busy traffic areas, where controllers speak very fast. If it is learning, then ground school could be incredible difficult for you to pass, as they are intense study sessions. Certainly speak to doctors and specialists, see what they say! |
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December 10th, 2004, 06:24
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| Old Skool  Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Georgia
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| Re: Auditory Learning Disabilities Short answer is yes. Proceed cautiously. You know whether you really have a "disability" or not. Do your own research before getting a lot of doctors involved. Look for solutions to what ever problem you are having outside of the medical field if possible. Then as a last resort get all the specialists involved. Because once you get a learning disability diagnosed and a big medical record of it you are stuck with it, most likely. There may be some forum where you can ask flight surgeons for advice anonymously, if so use take advantage of it. |
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December 10th, 2004, 19:37
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| Old Skool  Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: KPHX, KFFZ, KIWA
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    | Re: Auditory Learning Disabilities UALBryce is a friend of mine. Incidently if your wondering he is a "breeder". Anyways continuing on he originally asked me this question and I referred him to this board to see what others thought. As he mentioned he has a college degree and his PPL. So one might think that if he can complete a college degree sucessfully I might add that he could further complete all his ratings.Right? Even people with no disabilities and all there ratings don't always make it to the "big show" and become airline pilots so I was quick to make him aware of that fact. But he does have his PPL. I told him in my non-expert opinion that if he could focus and put his mind to it that he could prolly suceed at his life goals of being a pilot maybe possibly an airline pilot. I didn't blow smoke up his ass and say that it'd be exactly a "cake walk" only that it might be possible. Opinions? Matthew |
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December 11th, 2004, 11:02
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| Old Skool Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Georgia
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| Re: Auditory Learning Disabilities Sounds about right to me. My main concern is that when these stupid "learning disabilites" come up and you get a record of such a diagnosis you tend to lose control of the situation. That's why I said try to manage things by getting the problem (if there is one) handled without making a big official medical deal out of it, if this is possible. If it isn't then he might have a problem that just isn't surmountable as far as being a professional pilot. I wish him all the luck. BTW, what do you mean "breeder"? |
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December 11th, 2004, 13:11
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| Old Skool Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Georgia
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| Re: Auditory Learning Disabilities [ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] BTW, what do you mean "breeder"? [/ QUOTE ]I think that's what he calls us straight ppl..  [/ QUOTE ] OK, I must have deserved that for the (factually accurate) crack I made on another thread. |
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December 11th, 2004, 13:18
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| Old Skool  Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: NC
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| Re: Auditory Learning Disabilities Does it play a role in your flying now? As many of us know, learning how to speak "ATC" can be like another language. I would speak with a doctor and don't involve your AME yet. How long ago were you diagnosed? Are there any strategies you use to overcome your disability? Did you have problems with your first medical? I had a PPL/IR/CPL student who was diagnosed with ADD at 14 and he really wanted to go on to the airlines. He used to take ritalin, but he did lots of research, saw a few doctors, and now he uses several strategies to keep him focused and doesn't use medication. I've never noticed that he was off task in about 100 hours of instruction. Although your auditory processing disablilty is much different, look to see what your options might be. |
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December 11th, 2004, 18:29
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| Old Skool Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: KPHX, KFFZ, KIWA
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| Re: Auditory Learning Disabilities [ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] BTW, what do you mean "breeder"? [/ QUOTE ]I think that's what he calls us straight ppl.. [/ QUOTE ] Hehehehe...yea thats what I meant. I told him that I was "out" on the site so before anyone asked I thought I'd out it out there...but incidently he is my bf's roommate!  As for his learning disabilty I'm not really trained in this department. I know talking to him sometimes he can have a hard time understanding me and will need for me to repeat things possibly even slow things down as I speak. But this is happening less and less now. I know in an emergency situation in a cockpit one would need to be quick on his feet and well versed in the flows. That is something he might honestly need work on to build his strength. But he is definately not unintelligent he can learn. Airline ground school might be hard for him at first since it is so fast paced and have such a short amount of time to take in a lot of info and most say it is akin to trying to drink from a fire hose. But then again airline groundschool kicks everyones ass disabilty or not so I have heard. Hopefully Bryce will post again sometime this weekend to shed further light on how he learns and how is disabiltiy affects his learning skills. Matthew |
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December 11th, 2004, 18:33
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| Old Skool  Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Utopia
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| Re: Auditory Learning Disabilities I have an Auditory Disability....I can't stand listening to Bu11^$%#!!!! Sorry...bad joke...I needed to laugh... |
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