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Only when a flight attendant is asking on the intercom: "We don't mean to alarm anyone, but is anyone on board a pilot?" and you happen to be one.



I know a commercial pilot who used that as a joke once and got in trouble. The plane in question had several pilots on it but the rest of the passengers didn’t find it funny for obvious reasons.


It's entirely a different kind of flying

All together


It's entirely a different kind of flying!


It's entirely a different kind of flying


“We don’t wish to cause any alarm, but is there any one on board who is familiar with regular expressions, cron expressions and parameter expansion rules in bash?”


Several overweight men stand up and walk towards the cabin, immediately throwing off the weight distribution and the plane plummets.


You joke but… There was an emergency nose high recovery out of San Diego airport where at one point the pilot had every passenger crowd into the first class cabin…

The flight was saved.



You mean.. for free?


I hope the first class passengers were well compensated for their traumatic experience.


Hopefully you didn't have the fish.


Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit amphetamines


Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue!




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