Local solo flight

After my initiation into solo flying, I went out again on a local area solo flight. A local area solo means that you have to remain within a 25 nautical mile radius of the originating airport, it also means that you cannot land anywhere else.
The weather that day was forecasted to be raining and thunderstorms in the vicinity of the airport, so I had some trepidation about flying out of my comfort zone so to speak and loose sight of the airport. I'd been in the area numerous times during training flights and know my way around, except this time I was flying solo with no one else to rely on.

I honestly felt like a 15 year old driver behind the wheel of a car the first time they're taking it out on the road. It didn't help either that the visbility wasn't that great and I hadn't quite figured out how to to use the GPS system effectively, so it was all relying on my pilotage skills and situational awareness. I have a tendancy to initially underestimate myself but I kept on reminding myself that I had done this countless times before and could do it with no problems this time around as well.

Needless to say, my local area solo was a success. I headed back to the airport as the weather was moving in and landed on runway 27. Not the perfect landing, but it was a safe one nonetheless.
I added a total of 1.1 hours of solo time, only 7.9 hours to go.