[lurkingknight]

So, there's some concerns raised in some games about noise making devices that are too loud for unprotected hearing.

Legit concern.

We all know what peltor and sordins headsets to convert with use on radios, they get expensive, but they also work for ear protection as well as radio mics and radio operations. That's fine and dandy. If you want to flip for them and have the cash to do it, by all means. I'm looking for some more utilitarian stuff at a cheaper price possibly.

I have some further requirements and I'd like to poll the community that may or may not have more experience with this.

So help me spend money... Here's what I need:

hearing protection to prevent loud bangs... basically shooter hearing pro.

must allow me to hear things at a regular conversational level, but kick in to cut out the loud bangs.

Have removable mic or method to plug mic in or method to allow me to hear radio chatter from the radio.

I do a lot of car related things and I'm also looking at an upcoming 14 hours of plane ride in march. The last time I did this, I was not pleased with listening to jet engines drone for 14 hours. Is there a set of ear pro that meets the above requirements while at the same time can filter out ambient drone like normal noise cancelling headphones?

I know there's standard shooting phones that can plug audio sources into (some inexpensive ones come up on searches very quickly), these would be handy just for airsoft, but I'm not sure if they are able to block out ambient noise.

Likewise I can spend 200$ on noise cancelling headphones at bestbuy, but they are likely not able to block dB spiking.