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I flew my first solo cross-country Saturday. Whoo-hoo!
From Morristown to Virginia Highlands through Tri-Cities and back to Morristown. The first two legs went like clockwork. The third wasn't great. My main problem, I think, was that I was expecting VOR navigation to be more precise than it is.
I ended up improvising with the map to figure out the final turn toward the Morristown airport, and I ended up 5 or so miles off. I knew the area well enough, though, to correct and come back and land with no problem.
The idea of the first solo cross country flight is to repeat a flight that you've done before, so the navigation and airport finding is something you've done before. My next cross-country I go to Chattanooga; I've never been there before.