Please remember to put the wheels down on your high performance 182.
I also recommend having a good autopilot as I have read (in obscure magazines) that it is a great CRM tool. If you are kind of busy, let it hold the heading and altitude while you watch what it's doing now and dig through your QRH's and approach plates. As you are aware, we think that airline pilots (as a pair) sometimes suffer from $20 disorientation words- so it can happen to you too.
As to your question of my light plane status, no, I just sit here and spew BS (with tiny shreds of humor) on aviation forums and think about the $120/hour rental fee + instructor + my cheapness + my life insurance carrier's opinion of cowboy aviation and use it as a lame excuse to not visit the local airport and do the second most fun thing in the world. I do still subscribe to an obscure aviation magazine and read it monthly about how Not_Karl's uncle flies charters, Sam Weigel impresses Flyboy, Un-named poor souls screw up and Lestashture blesses us with his God-like management of 777-something or others.
A couple years ago I rode with a friend PPL on a short 172 hop...he forgot to richen the mixture during his pre-landing checklist, but I pointed at it...He richened the mixture and proceeded to land slightly sideways (like a good airline pilot) and we didn't died. On the way back to base airport (a Towered place with a big long ILS-equipped runway for biz jets and a shorter one for light planes), A business jet checked in on the ILS. I knew we were in the area and tipped a wing up to see them zoom a few hundred feet overhead. They asked the tower if they were talking to us. We had not checked in, but the GSP showed us a full 7 miles out at 500 ft AGL.
Last summer, I also rode a helicopter- that was educational.
Of course the worst part is that my wife is very efficient at disconnecting my yoke and pedals from the good computer
, so I don't eve get to go fake it in MD-80's and hope against hope to 1) be on the same plane with Dummy Pilot and 2) have him and his FO eat fish that will give him debilitating food poisoning. I'm thinking of getting a new computer and hooking it onto the flat screen in the living room...with the yoke and pedals 
.