Road to the PPL (Flight 16) - First navigation flight (Sonaca 200 | OO-NCD)

See description below (with timestamps at the bottom). Weather: METAR EBCI 100920Z 24011KT 9999 FEW014 10/05 Q1023 NOSIG= METAR EBCI 100950Z 26011KT 230V290 9999 FEW023 10/05 Q1023 NOSIG= METAR EBCI 101020Z 25012KT 9999 FEW025 11/05 Q1023 NOSIG= METAR EBCI 101050Z 25014KT 9999 FEW031 10/03 Q1023 NOSIG= METAR EBCI 101120Z 25013KT 9999 FEW031 10/04 Q1023 NOSIG= After a few weeks of no flying (mainly bad weather cancellations), my instructor decided that it was time to make a small jump and instead of continuing with touch and goes, do the first navigation flight. Actually a large part of this training was the pre-flight briefing itself, which included a long presentation about navigation, flight planning, weather, maps, calculations, the flight log, etc. Then we made the plan for the flight together, I got to use the classical analogue flight computer for the first time to calculate wind correction angles and ground speeds, and only after all of this did we go to the plane. It was a pretty straightforward route (literally), we flew almost directly South to the airport of Charleville-Mézières (LFQV), where I made two touch and goes (one normal and one flapless), then we flew back. I had zero issues with the navigation, mainly because 1) I love maps, 2) I have studied the route in advance in Google Maps, 3) I have flown the route in advance in X-Plane 11 with ortho scenery, so I had plenty of opportunities to find good visual references, 4) my instructor handled the radio outside of EBCI CTR so I would only need to concentrate on flying and navigating, and finally 5) the weather was really nice and clear (but quite windy), so it was really easy to find reference points from far away. I am already looking forward to the next navigation flight. Hopefully to an airport in Belgium and then I will not have to stress myself with talking French on top of everything. I plan to do a more detailed video on navigation (including preparation, with maps and calculations) in the future, this is really just an introduction to the atmosphere of it. 00:00 Initial discussion, part of briefing, navigation related snippets 01:51 Radio communications from taxi to take-off 03:48 Take-off EBCI RWY 24 04:51 Start of navigation flying towards LFQV 13:33 Arrival to Charleville (LFQV) 15:35 Right hand downwind RWY 29 LFQV (including an orbit to the left) 17:36 Touch and go RWY 29 LFQV 20:45 Touch and go (flapless) RWY 29 LFQV 22:00 Start of navigation back to EBCI 28:10 Arrival to EBCI CTR 29:54 Slightly early turn to downwind to avoid opposite traffic 31:45 Landing EBCI RWY 24 32:30 Vacating RWY, after landing flow, taxi back to P5, and shut down.