| Perhaps not the biggest complaint about air travel, but | | | | noise cancelling headphone. It is hard to gauge how |
| nonetheless background noise is a common grumble | | | | noisy an aircraft cabin is by the human ear due to the |
| when it comes to sitting in a plane for several hours at | | | | fact that the brain tends to compensate for ambient |
| a time. The deafening hiss of the aircraft and the | | | | noise. But with noise cancelling headphones it becomes |
| drone of the massive engines are both enough to | | | | quite clear how noisy a modern aircraft is. Not only can |
| make you go crazy, but luckily a solution has finally | | | | this ambient noise pollution lead to hearing loss, the |
| presented itself, noise cancelling headphones.For years | | | | usual method of using earplugs to combat the noise, |
| many frequent flyers have resorted to earplugs for | | | | can promote ear infections and on a practical level, it |
| solitude from noisy flights, but technology has finally | | | | does make for a fairly boring flight just listening to the |
| graduated from the humble foam plug to the electronic | | | | thoughts in your head! |