fountboy1:
you need to learn to fly. Stay away from any high tech stuff until you have 500 hours and an instrument rating ( with basic IFR equipment). You need to be trained to fly " outside the airplane".
High tech stuff is nothing more than a distraction from your number 1 job in an airplane " fly the plane"
I even cover up the " steam Guages" For my students first 10 hours or so.
Here is a story about one of my students who insisted on using a GPS on a night Cross Country
Night Flight Training Story
Learn in a taildragger if you can
airfreddy