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A better
: comparison is to fill the six seater with your max gas in the warrior
: and then do the comparison. You will then see the six seater kills
your
: bird.
:
: (fill with max gas in terms of range/endurance, not gallons).

: HUH, what???

What he's trying to say is that the "full fuel payload" is not necessarily
a
good metric to compare different aircraft. It's much more useful to
compare payload
for a specific mission. Some planes (like a friend's Piper Comanche) can
hold 90
gallons of fuel, while it only burns 12-14 gph. Comparing the "full fuel
payload" of
that aircraft to a 180 hp Mooney isn't a fair comparison, even though the
speed is
similar.

Now, consider how much payload can be carried in aircraft A vs. aircraft B
for
a 400nm cross-country flight. That's more fair. That's also one of the
big reasons
why we chose to get a PA-28-180 instead of a Cessna 150 or even a 172.
Having 50
gallons of fuel in a plane that burns 8.5 at 65% allows for lots of
flexibility.

-Cory

OK, I see that. I had misread, thinking he had said to fill both with "max
gas". :-)

Allen