Can deaf fly under sports pilot rule?

I have trained and signed off at least three pilots for a private pilot
certificate who were deaf. They did have restrictions via the medical
and even flew into controlled fields with a notice on their flight
plans for "NO RADIO" and got light signals. They simply asked someone
to open their flight plan when they took off, and closed it the same
way....via notes at the flight counter. Have had several other
"handicapped" pilots who worked around their difficulties and coped.
Two with eye problems...one eye each, one with only one hand, one with
one leg, etc.

that's interesting. How would you rate their overall flying abilities
compared to normal pilots?

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compared to normal pilots?

what is a 'normal pilot'?

--Sylvain

On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 01:21:17 -0800, Sylvain wrote:

compared to normal pilots?

what is a 'normal pilot'?

Well, say, compared to us one-eyed pilots


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There are no normal pilots, we are all exceptional.


Everybody stand and give Jim a high-five! Thank you Jim.

allen

Thank you.


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See if your local library has "Flight of the Gin Fiz" by Henry Kisor.
Henry is a deaf pilot and his book recounts how he learned to fly then
retraced the route of Cal Rodgers, who was the first person to fly
across the U.S., in 1911.
Cal was also deaf.

For the most part they were average unless you factor in the additional
work it took for them to pass their flight checks and the hassles they
did for the medicals. It took some extra effort on my part in learning
to adapt their physical problems to the physical acts of control
manipulations, etc. It was a challenge and ended up being educational
for me as well as fun, and frustrating, and satisfying, and gratifying,
etc.
Selway Kid

Sorry, I did not mean to imply that deaf pilots were not "normal"
pilots. It's just that deaf pilots are really not common. It was a bad
use of words on my part, sorry!

Myself, I have a severe case of hearing loss and that's why I was
interested in hearing more about your experiences teaching deaf pilots.
I will be looking for some instruction soon here in the Texas Hill
Country and will have to find an instructor that has experience in
dealing with deaf/hard of hearing students. I imagine many of them do
not want to deal with these kinds of student. Nonetheless, I am capable
of carrying on a conversation on the phone, etc, but the radio stops me
cold.

When I was going to high school in South Texas (near Harlingen), there
was a deaf cropduster and I figured that was the only way for for
hearing impaired people to fly! Also, I thought a Sports Pilot
certificate would enable more people like me to fly, but further
investigation has shown that they can fly with a PPL as well. All news
to me. Still learning. Thanks all for your feedback.
-Nick