Should I Get Headphones for a 7 Hour Flight?

[Hastune]

In a few months I am going on a 7 hour flight and another 4 hour one to visit family and friends in America.

Should I get headphones for both flights or not?

 

[robHing]

Here is another thread of flight discussion:

https://www.tinnitustalk.com/threads/flight-with-hyperacusis.21016/

 

[Bill Bauer]

You should get hearing protection on all flights (including short flights).

 

[robHing]

Also, please check your flight airplane.
Boeing 777 engines are louder than Airbus A380 (much bigger plane).

 

[GregCA]

In a few months I am going on a 7 hour flight and another 4 hour one to visit family and friends in America.

Should I get headphones for both flights or not?

I'm flying next month and will be using my Bose Noise Cancelling headphones. I think it's a great way to reduce outside noise while listening to whatever it is you want to listen to without having to crank up the volume too high.

 

[Fangen]

I took both earmuffs and NC headphones with me on a 10h our trip to Asia last year. The earmuffs just in case my battery on the headphones would for some reason be out. The muffs are good but they sit tight around my head to the point of having a headache. I also used plugs underneath my NC headphones (no sounds, only for the NC effect) and it worked fine. No spike.

 

[dfw]

Bose qc35 is what I use, from boarding to leaving the plane. Works great for me on 1 hour up to my longest flight of 12hours.

 

[Gman]

Later this year I'm going on a flight of similar duration and I made sure to book on an A380. They are so much quieter, it makes flying with T a lot less stressful. 777s are horribly loud. I think there are other newer Airbus models are ok too.

 

[Julien87]

In a few months I am going on a 7 hour flight and another 4 hour one to visit family and friends in America.

Should I get headphones for both flights or not?

If you plan to watch movies or listen to music during the flight, you could get closed headphones with passive isolation such as the Sennheiser HD 280 PRO. If money is not an issue, you could buy headphones with active noise cancellation technologies. They will reduce noise more efficiently. Either way, make sure that you put the volume below the half mark when watching a movie or listening to something. And if you wear headphones that you connect to the seat before you, quite noisy announcements from the cabin staff will regularly annoy you.
And personally I would not do this for the whole flight but maybe 2 or 3 hours maximum. And fully protect my ears for the rest of the flight.

If you don't plan to watch movies you can just wear earmuffs or earplugs. They make some earplugs especially for flying. EarPlanes I think they call it, never tried them though, I just use regular silicon earplugs.