The very first time I landed my Nexstar, the instructor that I was working with had been running me through slow approach drills. When I landed the plane all on my own, he was talking me through it so naturally and calmly that I didn't even realizing I was landing the plane until I chopped the throttle as instructed and put it down on the main gear like he told me.

It was so easy to land that it freaked me out a little, and I'm still kind of in awe of the job he did instructing me that day. The ironic part is the instructor is an older gentleman who has a bit of a reputation for wrecking his own planes on a rather frequent basis now.

My wife happened to be out at the field that day, and this is an actual photo of me flying my Nexstar right before I made my first landing.