"EDR" wrote in message
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For off airport/non-paved surface operations, the 182 will be less
succeptible to FOD damage (high wing and higher horizontal stabilizer)

Especially as you run your wings thru the bushes as you taxi in on some two
track road to a cabin. The 182 lets you skim thru the tops, the Cherokee
make you tear up the wing.


Then again, the Cherokee Six has 300 higher gross (3400 lbs vice 3100
lbs)

Gross is irrelavant. You want the lowest gross available with the highest
HP available. What you really want is the highest useful load. That 3100
gross 182 is a dog. I have a 182 with a 2800 gross which will vastly
outperform a newer 182 with the higher gross weights. Has to. Same
horsepower lifting less weight.