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Fuel Burn
"Totally agree and would have gotten a C-182 except for one thing... fuel burn. Love the airplane and what it will do but it burns another 5 or so gallons per hour over a C-172 or my favourite, the Cardinal C-177. "
If you pull the throttle back on a 182 so that you fly at 172 speeds you will be surprised at how low the fuel burn falls. When I would fly in our O-540 equipped Maule and go places w/ a friend in his 172, I had to pull the power back to about 15 inches of manifold to stay w/ him. Fuel burn per hour would then be in the 8 - 10 gal/hr range.
It also gets interesting when you compare fuel burn per hour to speed to get a miles per gallon figure. The larger engine in a 182 will burn more fuel at the same speed than the engine in a 172. OTOH, there are times when the climb rate or speed of a larger engine are invaluable. I will avoid flying a 172 into our airpark because it simply does not have enough power to comfortably clear the obstacles in all conditions.
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