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One can be flown by two people out & back to some distant place, the
other may not be able to. This is more important in the West and Alaska, I suppose... Right you are. And, as I pointed out, this is a fine line. My rule is this: In a plane without a bathroom (or the ability to stand up) a five hour range is probably the maximum desirable or necessary. Thus, in order to gauge utility I start measuring useful load at the five hour fuel capacity. -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination" "Martin Kosina" wrote in message om... If you can carry a larger payload with full tanks, you can obviously carry that weight farther than the poor guy who has to leave fuel on the ground. Better yet, if you off-load some of that fuel, you can carry an even GREATER payload. This gives you a far greater degree of flexibility than you would have if you could NOT carry that payload with full tanks. I really like you too, Dave -- but I fail to see why you cannot understand this very simple concept: I think he was just pointing out we may not be comparing apples to apples - take some of the Cessnas with long range tanks, they have laughable "full fuel payload", yet they are obviously the more flexible airplane next to an identical model that has 10-15 gallons less capacity. |
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