"Greg Copeland" wrote

I did not mean to imply that your hearing can not be damaged from flying.
rather, I meant to imply infrequent flying as a child certainly did not
damage my hearing...nor would I expect it to.

That would be contrary to the studies I have seen, about hearing loss. I
don't believe that it matters if you are a child, or if you only did it a
few times.

If you were in the noisy environment for the length of time necessary (for
the amount of decibels present) for damage to occur, your hearing was
damaged. Since you still hear well, you just did not lose a high percentage
of your hearing.

Just think how much better you could hear if you hadn't lost that little
bit, way back when? Dogs would be wishing they could hear like you do! g
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Jim in NC