"Roger Long" om wrote in
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Well, now you're doing it. I never said 50%. Dividing time properly
could
be 5% / 95% or even 1% / 99%

You're right. That figure was simply an example, my interpretation of more
general and vague comments.

But the actual figure doesn't matter that much. IMHO, any non-zero amount
of time spent watching the instruments while making a downwind-to-base or
base-to-final turn while in the pattern is too much time. That's for any
kind of turn, but becomes especially true in the overshoot case.
Transitioning to instrument flight (as your original post suggested) while
attempting to reintercept final approach in a VFR pattern is just plain
wrong.

Pete