Was lost but am found

Juz came down from my first solo Nav flight out to Mangaweka (DC-3; Cookie Time A/C). Weather enroute wasn`t that bad with clouds here there and everywhere. Winds was generally, VRB/03 and temp was 16/08. You can say is a pretty warm day after a shit load of rainny cold days.

Took off on RWY 25 juz after 737 Airnewzealand A/C took off on RWY07. The took off was really nice and not everyone can get a front seat view of the aircraft taking on. I was juz stone throw away from its take off point.

Once airborne, enroute to bunnythorpe was pretty short. Less then a min i wld say. Thereafter, I was in a track down lost lanes. Power lines and raising terrains look identical from the left to the right to the front. Sad to say, i have to be true to myself that i was lost on my first nav solo. No alam was raise as determine as i was to find back where i was, i use every available checks and procedures to find myself.. No mentioning i had some fun getting lost! haha...

Minutes and minutes passed and still no sign of where i was. Weather is coming in and cloud base is getting low, forcing me to go even nearer to the surface.. Few more feets down and i can start doing low level nav.. In the midest of it all, I crossed a double powerline which i kina rem it being really really near the ranges which i am not supposes to cross. Turning around and headed a general direction to gain as much ground as i can was the thou` that ran through my mind. This woke me up on my track and i found myself in a place i do not want to be!

Couple of mins later.. I manage to find Flat hill which is one of my pinpoint and got back into track and headed home from there.. The rest of the flight was juz njoying myself and making sure of where i was. Debrief was interesting as well but here is where the story end.

In life, we often get lost on our track. We can planned a perfect flight plan to bring us from point A to point B but we can never plan for the many emergencies, issues and things that may cause us to drift away from what we want. This is life... Juz like a ppt. my mom send me on trains! People come and go, you can never tell when the train will reach its final destination. The only thing we can do is to njoy the company and time we have with the passengers that bored our path and leave their tracks in our life. If we got lost, at least we are together and plan from there. Dun have to be frustrate but have fun.. Life is too short not to have any fun..

I believe what i learnt from the army, contribute to my return as well.. haha..