George Patterson wrote:
Darrel Toepfer wrote:

Plane & Pilot just did a review on the Saratoga. Full fuel gave +500
pounds useful. If I remember right that included the deicing system.
What a waste of money on a 6 seat, 180 knot plane...

What's the useful load with 3.5 hours' fuel in the tanks?

I quoted wrong, full tanks yields 411 pounds useful inside the cabin,
537 lbs total (front baggage? 100# max)...

Full tanks is 102 gallons. TKS deice fluid weighs 9.2 lbs. per gallon
and carries 4.4 gallons. 75% power consumption is 16.1 gph @ 175 knots @
10k ft... 3600# gross, empty weight is 2466#, useful load 1149#. Max
ramp weight is 3615#..

So something around 3 people and not much...

The author mentions a ferry flight to down under at 25% over gross,
4500# total weight... 650 fpm climb out...