Originally Posted by the King

Flight following is an excellent help for a student pilot. Just remember to tell the controllers that you are a student, especially if you are nervous.

I also have my students draw the runway(s) at the airport on their nav log. Then I'll have them draw a line representing the direction they will be traveling when they arrive. Now if you are a track up guy or gal, you can turn the paper around and you'll see the relative layout for your destination. That helps a lot at the small, uncontrolled fields we fly to.