Come on everybody, have you forgotten when you started flying? Was the luxury of a high quality noise attenuating heasdset more important than many flying hours? Heīs starting flying. If he carries on, he can treat himself when he can afford it, but to suggest to a beginner who may be financially strapped for every flying hour that he goes gets himself a Bose? Shame on you! A bog-standard cheapo headset is fine, and filling him with horror tales of protecting ears is nonsense. Most of us have done hundreds of hours in pistons and our hearing is still fine.
Captain, DONīT waste mney on an ANR until you decide you are going to fly for a long time and you have lots of experience! Enjoy your flying with an ordinary headsetö it will not do you ANY harm! Spend the money on lessons. One day, you will decide you will treat yourself. But it would be criminal if you blew money on one now and didnīt go flying for a few hours to pay for it. Pilots survived right up to 25 years ago without them, quite happily.