C182RGs are great airplanes ! I’ve got about 100 hours in one that I used for touring all over the western US. As has been said, you can almost forget about doing w&b (not that you should!). I didn’t have O2 available at the time, so the highest I ever took her up to was briefly to about 13k or so over the Sierra Nevada here, no probs climbing up there. The one I flew had the long-range tanks and I did my longest ever non-stop leg in it – six hours at economy cruise, landed with a bit over an hour reserve in the tanks! Performance-wise there isn’t an awful lot between that 182RG and the C210L I mostly fly now. IMHO these birds are the perfect personal touring airplanes. Would love to own one.
@RobertL18C wrote:
I fly a 182T quite a lot and see 145KTAS at F090 on 50lph
145 is really good for a 182T ! It should be WOT and full RPM (2400) ?
Along the years, mine went from 142 to 138 TAS, 2200RPM and peak EGT (42lph), as I added new antennas and, more importantly, VGs (FL90).
WOT and 2400RPM, but note FL090, the FG suffers at bimbling altitudes
