Information Systems Officer (navy)/ hearing test

Hi guys

Firstly, i was going to go in for the army officers university corps thing- but i failed a medical- on the hearing test.

i was rather annoyed because a) the room i was sitting in having it done had the loudest air conditioning AND there was a building being built directly next door and all i could hear was a pneumatic drill.

The tests showed that one of my ears wasnt as good as the other (i cannot remember if it was the one building site-side or not). The doctor said this wasnt due to excessive music as it would be in both ears but im worried as i am interested in a naval career.

Say there wasa problem- are there operations that can be performed? Whats the worst case scenario?

secondly, i was looking about becoming an Information Systems officer.....

http://www.royal-navy.mod.uk/server/show/nav.4997

"As an Engineer (Information Systems) Officer, you will join at a more senior rank than other Officers. The standard of your degree will increase your initial seniority."

As i am going to Imperial to do Information Systems Engineering- what rank do you think i would start on/be at after 3 years of service, say if i got a 1st class honours for MSc ISE?

thanks

I bet there was nothing wrong with your hearing, the OTC reject random people and give crap reasons just because they don't like the look of you.

army officers university corps thing

i was rather annoyed because a) the room i was sitting in having it done had the loudest air conditioning AND there was a building being built directly next door and all i could hear was a pneumatic drill.

Don't call them officers, it only leads them to deluded visions of grandeur

Did you raise this with the person testing you? Did everyone else tested in the same conditions fail?

So this naval-standard medical that i can ask my doctor for, what exactly do i ask him for?

As far as I know, if you weren't made to sit in a big 'fridge' and do your hearing test in there, then it wasn't the normal standard of hearing test, certainly not RAF hearing tests. I can't imagine that the fridge is an aircrew only thing.

Won't make a difference for OTC recruitment, they didn't want you, but it may mean that the results in any formal medical could be different - depends how deaf you are!

You could see a Doc and get a hearing test, if you found out what the RN standards are. But it wouldn't do much good, the final arbiter of all these things is the Service MO.

The fridge isn't exclusive to aircrew. I have had three tests, and only once in the glass screen fridge thing. The other two times was just in the MOs room with headphones. They don't actually require you to be in the fridge, because the headphones block the interfering noise from coming in. Exact principle as with DJ'ing, block outside noise so you can foxus on what is 'in' the headphones.

That's normal to hear the sea like sound; it's not the headphones. You also start to hear your breathing very heavily. Even if you heard the noise, was it excessively loud? It shouldn't affect your ability to hear the high pitched noises, as they do sound different afterall. :P

Don't call them officers, it only leads them to deluded visions of grandeur

Hearing tests are done in non soundproof rooms. At Cranwell you have Dominies on finals to contend with. People can still pass it however, and those are the people they want.