Hi Peter & All,

Well, obviously, I missed part of the conversation. If I spoke out of turn,
I apologize. The part I did catch didn't make sense to me at the time and I
was probably taking things a bit too literally.

Toks Desalu made some good points in his reply, points I hadn't considered.
Yes, there will be areas in aviation that the hearing impaired will have
trouble with but there are still plenty of places that they are more than
capable of enjoying safely. As they rightly pointed out, there's still
plenty of places where a radio isn't even required.

Again, if I spoke out of turn on this issue, I apologize. I certainly did
not mean any offense to the hearing impaired.

Fly Safe,
Steve R.


"Peter Duniho" wrote in message
...

Seems to me that Steven's reply quite accurately described how a deaf
pilot would communicate with ATC. The fact that the deaf pilot cannot
communicate with ATC in all circumstances is irrelevant to the answer.

Yes, one might infer that it's relevant to the original question, but it's
not Steven's way to go out of his way to be helpful (no offense
Steven...that's just how your posts are) and the original question didn't
ask how deaf pilots *can't* communicate with ATC. Steven *did* answer the
question asked, and as far as I know, did so completely (that is, he left
no other method out).

If you know different, we're all ears (except the deaf pilots ).

Pete