Originally Posted by
soay
172driver, I bought them from
The Flying Shop, who I think are the only UK source.
Most of my flying has been in 172s and DA40s. They are very comfy and there is no risk of the earplugs popping out, if you have inserted them correctly. (You can tell if you haven't if the noise level increases significantly when you yawn.) There is also no risk of air pressure building up behind them. The longest I've worn them for was a 3.5 hour flight.
Lightspeed offer a variant that I haven't tried, called the
Mach 1. Like the Bose X, it looks good, but you have to have an expensive piece molded to fit inside your ear by an audiologist for it to be effective.
Soay, thanks for that. Of course, buying from the US cuts the price by about a third... what else is new. The Lightspeed one looks good also, if more expensive and I'm not sure how the rather beefy temple would interact with sunglasses. Btw, according to their website, you can have the 2-ear one w/o the custom-moulded earcups. How effective they then are is, of course, a different question. Think I might give the Clarity ones a go
