Oh ok. I used to have a 182 and also a Bonanza but fly a Baron now. I would actually love to have a 182 again. What a great airplane.
As a not-very-interesting aside, I've flown many hours and only twice did I think I was headed for death. I think about that feeling every time I think about Kobe's crash and what that feeling was like. Once, I was flying with my father in a Piper Navajo (that's what we had at the time and my father flew it and he was a very experienced pilot- I was about 12 when this happened) and we lost an engine coming back to NC from Jacksonville Fla. Dad went through the list of what to do, and couldn't get it going again. Not a huge deal, and he talked to Atlanta tower I think and redirected to an airport asap. (Avionics technology was nowhere near what it is today - this would have been mid-late 70s). We were over Ga if I remember right. Almost instantly, we lost the 2nd engine. So there we were with no engines and that plane didn't glide very well. Losing altitude like a son of a gun and dad going through his checklist very nervously. No way we get to the airport. But somehow he got the 2nd engine that had cut out going again and we were ok but we didn't have much air left under us at that point. Flew on one engine to the airport, landed, and had the plane checked out by their mechanic. I had bricks in my pants. My father was shocked I kept my interest and love for flying.
That Navajo was actually stolen and ditched/crashed by Barry Seal (American Made movie, etc) when he was doing that for those drug runs. We actually still to this day get mail and requests for information on that stolen drug plane episode some 40 years later.
