"kontiki" wrote:

Nice plane, but IFR range and useful load are inadequate.


Personally, for long range crusing I would want something faster
than a 182.

Who wouldn't?

New 182s aren't too shabby, though. The one at the flight school will cruise
145+ KTAS. Put that together with the 'Lane's good useful load and excellent
short field performance and you have a pretty dandy all-around airplane.

Anyway, the OP was about cost comparison, so I used apples-to-apples. If I do
buy another airplane, there are other possibilities.

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Dan
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