Yeah, unlucky is one way of putting it! Our ship is an Italian built one from Oct 2006. The original windscreens lasted 5 years and approx 350 hours. Next two have lasted 25 and 103 hours over 14 months. Serial numbers start with the year and have been 08, 10, 11 and now 12.
A couple of replacements that arrived were U/S due to possible cracking in edge and one that rocked from either corner to corner in opening and a worst gap originally of 0.125?. Last replacement of LH window was done at annual insp due to one of the earlier replacements having a 2" band of distortion along the bottom edge and took 5 hours to have out and replaced. My opinion of PPG QA is pretty average at the moment.
Interested to know if anyone is flying around with glass that has minor pitting from FOD or ?? and if so is it just 1 or 2 impact/crush points or is it numerous.
As I implied we are not flying out of a gravel pit in East B*mfu*k and can't recall where we might have picked up so many FOD impacts, unless it's those stuffy corporate jets at the airports we go to throwing up sand in our face!
