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  1. Just switched from Geico TO USAA for car insurance only...........Geico was several hundred dollars more per year than USAA.  Also, just signed on for home insurance after dumping Grange (again several hundred saved).   Interesting 

  2. I'm skeptical.  I see an inordinate number of kids these days answering this question: 

    "what do you want to be when you grow up" 

    "a Youtuber"

    Sad how in my generation the response would have been

    "an astronaut, doctor, fighter pilot, an army man"

    Indicative of anything?  The hell if I know, but an indicator of the kind of kids we're raising?  Hmmm

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  3. 6 hours ago, FourFans said:

    H3 hearing waiver here.  Yes.  You can have HORRIBLE hearing and still be on flight status.  The booth of pain is nothing more than a screener to see if you need to go to the real booth...which isn't painful at all.  The real one is preceded by a device clammed to your head (not BQZip's mom) that plays sonar sounds and maps what your hearing should be.  Then you sit in a real sound proof booth and you play the game again with high def speakers and not a headset, which tests the connections between brain and ear.  The device maps what your hearing should be.  The booth maps what your hearing is.  The only reason they need the booth is to make sure your brain is actually receiving the inputs the ear is sending.  

    Bonus: If you have a competent audiologist, the high def speaker test will have a "repeat this word" test, which is the result of a 30 year speech pathology study examining how hearing degradation impacts speech degradation as we get older.  Basically what we hear turns into what we say, and it's very subtle.  But once you hear it, you can't unknow it.  BTW yes, at 40 years old I became a hearing aid recipient.

    Interesting sidebar: After having personally gone through that audiology and speech pathology wringer, it is clear that our current president relies on lip reading, an ear piece, and is stone cold Boomer def.  The signs are easy to pick up once you know what to look for.  It sadly explains some of his gaffed responses...(that, and the outright lies...fo example his academic record...no hearing problem there)...definitely not an excuse, and frankly a reason he shouldn't be in office...but I digress.  God help us.

    TLDR: You can have horrible hearing.  So long as you can still do your job (i.e. your D.O. signs of that you can still hear the RWR tones), you're good to go.  H3 waiver takes about 3-4 months to process.  If you lead turn it, you'll never leave flight status.

     

    P.S. Tinnitus gets you 10%. Hearing loss gets you 0% (but they pay for your hearing aids every 3 years...supposedly)

    Excellent info, thanks for posting.

    Was the "advanced" test done at Wright Pat?  Did you ever have your baseline reset before reaching H3?  

    Solid info on the VA disability tip (Tinnitus vs. hearing loss claim)

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