Welcome to the lumberjacks club!!!

I hit a couple of trees learning too, and one of the hardest things I found was depth perception, but only one of the hard things. It always looks closer than it is.

Don`t feel too bad about it though, a couple of French pilots drove an Airbus A320 into pine trees whilst `giving a show` about 15 years ago. No restrictions on who can do it. Your damage was probably only about a hundred bucks; theirs was $40 million!