I heard about a flight instructor that was sitting next to his student in their single engine plane, when he said, "Well, I think it's time to take her in for a landing. Are you ready to go down?" The student said, "No problem, let's do it."

Well, as they were approaching the runway, the instructor looked at his student and noticed how calm he was. Normally, students who are coming in for their first landing were nervous, wide-eyed, and sweating bullets. But this young man was as cool as the other side of the pillow. The instructor thought to himself, "I cannot believe how calm this young man is. He will make a great pilot."

But then the plane hit the runway with a thud, bounced fifty feet into the air, hit and bounced again, ran off the runway and landed upside down in a cornfield. The …