is there a noise canceling headphone, not music.

Try cotton balls. Just a small portion in each ear. Doesn't cost an arm and a leg, either.

That is what I have been doing. It need it to be about

Yes, most hardware stores should have them. But they are NOT called headphones, which is why your google results are bad. Try something like "hearing protectors". A lot of people use them to mow the lawn, so places that sell mowers probably have them too.

That explains it. Search lit up like a Christmas tree!

Thank you!

Hmm I've heard of noise cancelling ear buds like for iPod's. Is it for work or sleeping?

Flents "Quiet! please" foam ear plugs. *If* you don't mind sticking something IN your ear...

These look good:

Probably for Sex :)

This link goes to a motorcycle magazine. They review all sorts of stuff. They reviewed earplugs and noise canceling earbuds at the link. Wind noise is a big deal on a motorcycle.

Thank you!

My active noise cancelling "music" headphones and anc aircraft headphones do a very good job of cancelling that kind of noise with no sound input (like music)

We use these. Very good, not terribly expensive and if you don't like them, the owner of the company is very responsive.

Less intrusive are the foam plugs. Disposable but can be reused many times. I'll put them in on a stormy night when trying to sleep or run noisy equipment like the lawn mower or chain saw. At the shooting range, I'll use the plugs plus ear muffs. Muffs are better than plugs but become uncomfortable particularly when warm.

Per T:

I would think that music head phones would do the job if they were worn with no input.

People will say "Ear Plugs" or "Ear Muffs".... My experience is that neither is comfortable enough for long-term repeated use. YMMV....

But there are some quite-comfortable over-the-ear earphones... and they do not need to be noise canceling, just "Closed" (as opposed to "Open", which let in external sounds).

I have a set of "Open" earphones that are so comfortable that sometimes I find myself walking around the house with them on long after I have finished using them - just because I have forgotten that I had them on.

All that being said, the first thing I would try are the el-cheapo earmuffs from Harbor Freight for three bucks:

And if those do not work, I would move up a notch in price and try these for eight bucks:

Only after rejecting those, would I start looking at over-the-ear closed headphones.

You are looking for hearing protectors. There are some very good ones designed for the shooting sports that are adjustable to allow normal conversation but block out louder noises and can be tuned to completely block all sounds.

Bose makes noise cancelling headphones. With no music input, they would just cancel the external noise. I've used them on airplanes when they hand them out. As soon as you put them on the airplane noise, anyone talking, etc, is greatly reduced. But they aren't cheap. Pilots also use them and there may be other brands, but that's what they are called, noise cancelling.

For some strange reason, I would not be comfortable knowing that my pilot is wearing anything that cancels "external noise".

I want him listening for every little noise and every comment from the other members of his crew, radio connected or not.

For some strange reason, I would not be comfortable knowing that my pilot is wearing anything that cancels "external noise".

I want him listening for every little noise and every comment from the other members of his crew, radio connected or not.

I don't think it's fair to call these noise *cancelling*. Good words would be protecting, insulating, stifling, stopping, but cancelling to me refers to electronic headphones that listen to the noise and generate an opposite signal, so that the sum of the noise and the sum of the signal is zero or close to it.

I've never used them and I don't know how well they work, and I can imagine there is a wide range of what works well.

But if there is no electronics in the device, I think they are being dishonest by stealing the word *cancelling* from electronic devices that seek to and afaik often succeed in cancelling noise.

Foam refers to the ones you roll into a thin tube and put them in your ears before they expand. (unlike earlier foam that expanded the moment you stopped squeezing it. That was not used for ear plugs afaik.)

I've used thse a lot and they work well. And they're cheap 2 dollars for 3 pair maybe, at least a few years ago. They may have disadvantages but just try them. I'm not going to prejudice you against them. I use the yellow ones that are a simple cylinder. There are also green ones that are smaller at the end.

But if the foam is not good enough, I would try electronic noise