Re: Next club purchase...

"Gezellig" <nokonihi@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:11:26 -0700 (PDT), Robert M. Gary wrote:
>
>> On Aug 22, 8:55 pm, John Smith <jsm...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>>> Cessna 182.
>>> Not 150 kts, but fast enough.
>>> The ability to haul a load is more im****tant than speed.
>>> Four full adults plus luggage.
>>
>> I do a lot of instruction in the C-182 but I cant say I'm a big fan of
>> the airplane. Cessna was just lazy and bolted a high performance
>> engine on their training plane. Its dog slow, sucks gas like no
>> tomorrow and flys like a box. I think the 172 is a fine airplane but
>> they really needed to go back to the drawing board when it was time
>> for the 182. Its a bit like putting a high performane engine in a Yugo
>> and calling that your high performance offering.
>>
>> -Robert
>
> Robert, with only an engine change, was it the weight that turned the
> 182 into a woofer?

It's more than an engine change.  The first 182s had a smaller cabin, but 
the rest of them have considerably more room than the 172 with a wider and

longer cabin.  The wing is essentially the same, but everything else is 
different.

The 182 is far more versatile than the 172.  You can pull the power back
on 
a 182 and get 172 fuel burns at the same speeds, but you can carry more, 
farther, higher, with more room and a better climb rate.  If you want to
go 
faster, you have that option.