On Aug 29, 12:13 pm, wrote:

Well-said. Just because something has the horsepower doesn't mean you need to use it. NOR does
it inherently mean that you're going to lose much speed. The drag of the airframe determines how fast
you go. The amount of horsepower you're using determines how much fuel you burn. As I've said in
previous posts about this, compare the numbers for different engines on the same airframe (e.g. PA28 or
PA24). In a PA-28 for instance, you can go from 10 gph to 7.5 gph and only lose 5-10 mph. With
something like a 182 I'm sure it's even more.

As a current Mooney owner and former Aeronca and J-3 pilot I can
assure you that you cannot do Aeronca./J-3 type flying in a Mooney.
The problem is that the comfortable flying speed is so much higher
that you need to be higher off the ground and have less ability to
just play around. When you're going 2 or 3 times faster you cover more
ground and have more terrain, etc to worry about. In the J-3 flying at
300 feet over farms was no big deal because you were doing 50 mph.

-Robert