'draken55' I have not seen the current HOOK edition however NavAir have been working on 'hearing protection' solutions for more than a decade with some results.
F-35 Forcing Navy To Develop New Hearing Protection For Flight Deck Crews 09 Apr 2014 MEGHANN MYERS
F-35 Forcing Navy To Develop New Hearing Protection For Flight Deck Crews | Defense News | defensenews.com
“The Navy is developing new hearing protection for flight deck crews to block out the roar of new and noisy jets. The F-35 Lightning II, which clocks in at a thundering 152 decibels, is forcing the service to come up with better hearing protection for sailors. Enter the new headset: they offer 14 decibels more protection and are worn over earplugs, like the legacy “Mickey Mouse” headphones that the fleet has used for six decades. “The Navy flight deck is one of the noisiest places in the military,” said Dan Ratcliff, program manager of aircrew systems for Naval Air Systems Command, in an April 8 briefing at the Sea-Air-Space expo outside Washington, D.C. The new headset, known as the DC2, is a 14-decibel [more protection] upgrade already in use with the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Marine Aircraft Wings. Some sailors may also get to wear new foam ear plugs that have an embedded speaker, allowing yellowshirts to listen to the plane & the ship while on deck....
...NAVAIR isn’t done trying to protect sailors’ hearing. Officials are now in the early stages of a triple hearing protection system that works at up to 39 decibels [more protection? as seen in sentence no.3 above?], Ratcliff said.”
NRAC 2009 Noise Chart from:
http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc...c=GetTRDoc.pdf
