Take TheDude's advice about the EFIS stuff. You have to learn how to walk before you can run. Glass is nice, WAY NICE. But it dosen't teach you basic skills that most pilots end up lacking from haveing too much information. When you can fly the VOR A at SMO with one dial, and no help from ATC, down to mins with confidence, then your ready to step into glass. Lots of flipping and twisting to find that next stepdown. Made me sweat on my first try, and that was at 100 kts, where things happen preaty slow. There is lots of good advice here. And the best peice so far was to slow down so you don't become a statistic. Many a pilot has burned in because his check book was faster than his pilot skills. I vaugley remember a MLB player who killed himself in a Ciatation flying single pilot in VFR, someone help me out here.