"Peter Duniho" writes:

"Roger Long" om wrote in
message ...
[...] You should always be dividing your attention between inside
and outside.

IMHO, not even close. Not for VFR flight.

Have to agree with this.

Look: with an instructor, cover up the airspeed indicator, the gyros,
all that crap. Try flying around the pattern a couple of times. Get
used to it. There, not so bad, eh? You don't really need that stuff.