I now have 125 hours on it. On the Sun-N-Fun trip I logged nearly 25 hours going to and from along with quiet a bit of flying around central Florida. The only problems I have had other than routine maintenance has been with some of the pin striping coming off the leading edges and cracking of prop spinners. The first one I replaced and the second one I have repaired and it seems to be holding up alright.
I do get some buffeting from the windshield, however, what I have found is that the front windshield causes the wind to go up and over the rear windshield completely. The wind that I feel in the rear cockpit is passing over my head and going down my back. The wind coming around the sides of the windshields causes more of a buffet than the top but even this is not unpleasant. My windshields to begin with (the tinted ones in the first pictures I sent you) did cause quiet a bit of the buffeting that Jesse mentioned. The ones I have now are 2" taller than the originals.
There is a lot of air passing my feet going forward at cruise speed with the front cockpit uncovered but when I have the front cover on, the airflow below shoulder level is down to zero.
To answer the rain question, I have only flown through rain of any significance one time and that was on the way back from Sun-N-Fun last month. The front windshield was almost completely blind due to the rain and the rear one had very little rain on it probably due to the blanking effect I mentioned above. Anyway, I got no water in either cockpit
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As a comparision to my plane I can remember back to July 96 when I had the opportunity to fly your plane while Rick still had it. As best I can recall, there was not enough difference between the two types of windshields to tell.
