Auditory Effects of Noise on Air-Crew Personnel

Abstract

Hearing-threshold tests were made on flight personnel of several sorts, including aerial-application pilots, flight instructors, private pilots, stewardesses, and FAA flight inspectors. Excluding those people whose flight experience is of short duration, each group shows some measurable degree of threshold shift, although this shift is frequently not enough to be regarded as a clinically significant entity. Data on the sorts of noise exposures each group commonly receives are presented, and some cautions are offered regarding interpretation of the data.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 1972
Accession Number
AD0757239

Entities

People

  • Jerry V. Tobias

Organizations

  • Federal Aviation Administration

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Airplanes
  • Aviation Medicine
  • Commercial Pilots
  • Ear Diseases
  • Engines
  • Flight Crews
  • Frequency
  • Health Services
  • Hearing Disorders
  • Hearing Loss
  • Helicopters
  • Instructors
  • Jet Engines
  • Medical Personnel
  • Military Pilots
  • Pilots

Readers

  • Acoustics.
  • Aviation Science / Aeronautics.
  • Systems Analysis and Design