john smith wrote:

Jay Honeck wrote:

I fly an airplane with a 1633 pound useful load and I find quite an
advantage to being light on fuel.


Holy cow. What GA plane has that kind of a useful load? A Caravan?


Have you ever looked inside an old, straight-backed Cessna 182 jumpship?
I would wager that they have 1600 pound useful load EASY!

Nope, not even close. The old 182's had the least useful. The newest
182's had almost 1400 pounds useful but that was a marketing ploy.
Cessna just raised the gross weight. The newer 182's(thru 1986) perform
the worst.