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During my first Solo Cross-Country flight, from Wiley Post Airport in Bethany, OK to Ponca City Municipal Airport in Ponca City, OK, I snapped a few photos. This one, out the front-left window, shows a road and surrounding ponds and fields. Yep, that little black dot on there is a car.

One of the great things about flying in a small plane is that you get to cruise along at altitudes between 4000' and 6000' -- and in a place like Oklahoma, that allows for not only very long-views on high-visibility days, but also a good sight-picture of the terrain below. Looking at this picture in large format always gives me the sensation that I'm falling, -- not sure why, but I expect it's because I know the angle I'd have to be tiled out of the plane to see the landing gear relative to the ground like that.

"EZRA" is a user-defined GPS waypoint that I created to have the autopilot line me up for final approach and descend me to 2000' (traffic-pattern altitude) by the time I got to that point. There was an easier way to do this without creating a waypoint that I figured out on my return trip, but oh well.

Under the right wing of my (well, not "my") plane (a 2009 Cessna 172SP), that is "Sooner Lake," North North-West of Pawnee Municipal Airport in Pawnee OK. The river to its left (North) probably has a name, but all I can tell you is that it connects Kaw Lake in Ponca to Keystone Lake in Westport.

As measured by my Garmin GPS watch, and analyzed by Rubitrack for Mac.