STUDENT PLT FLYING AN SMA ON SOLO XCOUNTRY FLT GOT LOST AND ENTERED CLT CLASS B AIRSPACE. PLT LEFT CLT AIRSPACE; FOUND AND LANDED AT AN UNCTLED ARPT TO GET REORIENTED.

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I GOT OFF COURSE AND LOST ON A SOLO XCOUNTRY FLT FROM FLO TO GMU. I BELIEVE THAT I GOT OFF COURSE BY A XWIND FROM THE S; WHEN I WAS EXPECTING A HEADWIND FROM 360 DEGS. I ALSO DID NOT MAKE GOOD VERIFICATION OF LANDMARKS. IT WAS SOMEWHAT HAZY; SO IT WAS DIFFICULT TO PICK OUT LANDMARKS IN THE DISTANCE. BY THE TIME I COULD PICK OUT CLT ARPT; I WAS TOO CLOSE; AND IN CLT'S CLASS B AIRSPACE. I THOUGHT THAT CLT WAS COLUMBIA; SC; SO I TRIED TO CONTACT COLUMBIA APCH; ZTL; FSS; GREER APCH. I WAS UNABLE TO CONTACT ANY OF THEM. I SHOULD HAVE TUNED TO THE EMER FREQ; BUT I DID NOT. I WAS QUITE SHAKEN UP BY NOW; AND SINCE I THOUGHT THAT WAS COLUMBIA; I THOUGHT I WOULD FOLLOW THE LAKE UP TO FDW WHERE I WOULD KNOW WHERE I WAS. I NEVER SAW FDW SINCE IT WAS CLT INSTEAD OF COLUMBIA. I THEN SAW AN UNCTLED ARPT; AND DECIDED TO LAND. SVH WAS WHERE I WAS. IN BEING FATIGUED AND SHAKEN UP; I MADE A MISTAKE OF FLYING A R-HAND PATTERN INSTEAD OF A L-HAND PATTERN FOR THE RWY. I REALIZED WHAT I HAD DONE ONCE I HAD LANDED.