Do You Wear Your Hearing Aid When Going Through A Metal Detector At The Airport?

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Just wondering what's the regulation here. Do you take them off during the screening or wear them?
 
Last time I flew (Novemeber) my aid didn't set off the metal detector.
 
I remembered many years ago when I had to travel by plane. We do have the security to look after us passengers to make sure we are safe from terrorists. I did walk through the metal detector while I had my hearing aid on. No effect on it, so it is okay to wear hearing aids as long as it is not setting off the metal detector. I have not flown a plane in a long long time now. I had only traveled by car or trains a lot more than planes. I guess I was scare of plane crash. :dunno:
 
Same experience here. They don't set off the metal detectors (supero 412).

Speaking of which, next time somebody goes through a metal detector activate the t-coil and tell me what you hear.
 
I've been throgh numerous Airport Secuirty and never had a problem with the HAs setting them off.
 
Well, i have flown lots of times, and everytime i
asked if i need to take off my "behind the ear"
hearing aid off before going thru metal detectors,
they always said no. So i guess its not a problem
unless you have Cohleher implants, i dont know about
them. i dont know nothin about them anyways.
 
I have no problems with my hearing aid. They never ask me to take it off and it doesn't set off the metal detector.
 
Why would anyone have to remove their hearing aids? I wonder if they ask the women who have received breast implants to remove theirs . . . :naughty: What's the next thing that people are told to take off? :ugh: Glad I'm driving to LALA Land for spring break. :D
 
I've been through airports three times with my CI...two of them...and the alarms didn't set it off. It's mainly because titanium is a weak metal compared to copper or the like. Someone I know has titanium metal rods in their leg for stabilization...it didn't set off the alarm.

Regardless, we always must have a card or show it to them...they will just let us through. Nothing to worry about.
 
I have worn HA all my life and is frequent flier, Never Ever had any experince of any problem.

As CI user, I had flown three times, first one in UK i was nervous about anything i showed the card to the Security he let me go round and be patted. Going to Austria from England, no problem but when i came home, they did take my card without looking at it and they put the card on my tray that goes through the Detector, i was protesting but with them speaking no english i took the chance to be forced through the xrays but took my ci off just in case. I emailed to my Audi about this, she said the worst case the magnet would set the detector off. CI users should be okay to go through and make sure they carry the card (in different lang depending where they go) all the times.
Last time i flew was yesterday, I have just got home from Austria, I came from different airport. I had my card in my hands, the security said put it in the tray, i said no because i would need it if it set the detector off, he had a look/read it carefully at the card, let me go round instead and was patted. it varies from airport to airport.
 
hearing aid always stay on at the Airport, never had to take them off to go through metal detection. There's not enough metal in the hearing aids to set them off. Same with CIs, from my understanding.
 
I have flown 8 times, I haven't done anything different than the rest of the passengers. I don't point it out and don't get asked about it. I'd rather be able to hear what they are asking me than take it off and have hearing problems.

Steve
 
I set off the detectors once, but it was the metal buckle on my belt not my HAs!
 
I had flown to Indianapolis from San Antonio. I did wear HA. I took it off and put in bowl to scan. I never have problem with them. Nobody tell me to turn off device at airport. I need to wear them as earplugs to prevent of noise in my ears canal. I turned power off. I can't stand it's too loud for me. I can't use cellphone on plane. HA and cellphone are different.
 
Im a frequent flier, internationally and my CI never set off an alarm at checkpoints, everywhere. I recall, in LAX, one over-zealous TSA security woman had stopped me, asking me what am I wearing on my right ear and referred to her supervisor and was told to let me pass through.

Good job to TSA supervisor!
 
Ive been through metal detectors with my ha's on at the courthouse and thru the airport and never had any problems either:)
 
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