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Originally Posted by SierraPilot123  Completely normal for your first time. There is a lot of paper work involved while trying to fly at the same time. Just make sure you are holding your plotted heading the entire route and don't loose it just because you are looking at your flight plan.
I took one of my students on his first XC last week. He was at least 8nm off course on the way there and back. Some how he found the airport. I think he had looked it up on google earth and got lucky because it is very hard to find.
Much better to use large landmarks like rivers, lakes, and Nav aids. Power lines and small towns can be tough. |
Unfortunately, there aren't too many rivers and lakes here in CO to use. We did use a couple of resovoirs though. I used a VOR also, but instructor didn't like that I had chosen it to use because he didn't want me to use any Navaids right now he said. Oops.