What is involved in your CAA or pre employment hearing test?
Your CAA audiometry report is a full diagnostic hearing assessment which measures your overall hearing levels and if there is hearing loss it will isolate the area of the ear where the hearing impairment occurs. Click here for more details of a full diagnostic is hearing assessment.
Before you come
- Remember to bring photo ID
- Your ears will need to be clear of wax before the hearing test as we use insert ear phones.
Click hear for more information about wax removal.
What is involved
- Otoscopy – we will check your ear canals are clear and healthy
- Pure tone audiometry – where you will press a button in response to quiet tones
- Speech audiometry – when you will repeat back words that you hear though the head phones
- Immittance audiometry – is an automated test that measures how your ear drums respond to pressure changes and whether a small muscle in your ear contracts to loud sounds (acoustic reflexes).
Time frame
The hearing test usually takes about half an hour maybe longer in some cases.
Your Audiogram report
We will give you the original report to submit and will keep a copy on file for the future comparisons.
CAA examination requirements timetable for Audiometry (hearing tests)
Information from Civil Aviation Authority website – Nov 2016
Class 1
On initial application
Ages: 36, 40, 44, 48, 52, 56 etc
Class 2
On initial application (if indicated – see note below)
Ages: 36, 40, 44, 48, 52, 56 etc. Only needed if IFR flights undertaken if not must be endorsed “Not Valid for IFR flight”
Class 3
On initial application
Ages: 36, 40, 44, 48, 52, 56 etc
