Considering Hammer's good comments like, "Underpowered airplanes teach you what the air is doing. You can’t just pull back on the yoke or add more throttle… hell, a lot of the time you can’t even turn on course until you figure out where the air is rising so you can gain some altitude. You have to use the air, and to use it you have to understand it," in TxAgfisher's "I'm new" post, two questions:
1. How would a J-3 Cub, Aeronca 7AC, Cessna 120 or 140 or 150, Cherokee 140, Colt, PA20 or 22-135, or AA1-A pilot negotiate a summer afternoon flight from Alamosa, Colorado to Gallup, New Mexico through La Manga and Cumbres Passes with strong SW winds? There was a time when even little airplane pilots had schedules to meet. Without the free natural energy Hammer is talking about you won't have fuel to safely make it.
2. Is there any good reason that a Cessna 182 pilot would do it any differently?