Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for May 12, 2016

Sadly sounds like where piloting is heading.

Does he work for the Grace L. Ferguson Airline and Storm Door Company?

Wow. A “zoomie zoom” button.

Pilot Ed was off his MedWhich made him wish he stayed in bedThis Rat was full of crap And he talked like gangster rapHow did Ed wind up inside this hideous bar room trapAs Ed prepared to leaveHe wondered when Goat sneezedDid all his gooey snot get blown into the breeze?

Ah ha, I always suspected as much!

https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=youtube+foster+brooks+airline+pilot.Now that’s an airline pilot!

Must be an Airbus ship.

I thought it would be Words with Friends

Whose beer is that (on the right) anyway? The handle alternates between the pilot and Goat, but it appears that no one has been drinking it.

Mine was An Infinite Number of Monkeys. I still use the word “gesornenplatz” whenever I have the opportunity.

Is it a coincidence or just expected that I just finished a game of Candy Crush before I read this comic?

He doesn’t notice that his co-pilot is doing all the work. The zoomie-zoom button isn’t connected to anything!

It’s not that easy Ed. You have to blow into the tube on Otto’s belt bucket once in a while.

Rat has a friend ?

I hear that the planes even land themselves now.

Why is Ed in the bar? He’s due to take-off in fifteen minutes.

My wife has one of those “zoomie zoom” buttons in her car.

With this strip and the one last week about airport seats, Stephan sure has a bone to pick with airplanes.

Fly TransLove Airlines,Gets you there on time.We are flying at an altitude of 39,000 feet,Captain High at your service.

do people to this day still play Candy Crush?

aw, heck – there’s still Candy Crush, Candy Crush Soda Saga, and Candy Crush Jelly-something that I know of. Probably more. I just don’t play on Facebook anymore.

Pastis obviously knows nothing about why the pilot is in the cockpit. Hopefully for him and other passengers, he will never experience the reason…

Yeah, we’ve all been on that flight.

One of the earliest [and best] bits about flying by the great Shelley Berman…Airlines

I have a friend, a retired airline and former military pilot, who says that dogs are part of the flight crew. The pilot is there to feed the dog. The dog is there to bite the pilot if he touches the controls.

Crash?! Crash?? I heard “crash”?!!?!

Self driving cars, why not self flying planes?

Mazda makes planes? (Zoom-zoom)

I see my first comment was deleted.

The Spanish for today replaces “Zoomie Zoom” with “Sooom,” and he says he plays with his telephone. Apparently “Candy Crush” doesn’t resonate.

I’m currently on Level 147 on Candy Crush. Just started on that level today.

xxx

My favorite pilot joke is the one about the older pilot who hadn’t been checked out in a while, and so they finally got around to testing his eyes, they found out he’d become blind as a bat.“Jeez, how do you fly the plane?” they asked.“Simple,” he said, “the tower guides you to the take-off point, tell you when, and you give it full throttle and pull up. The navigator takes over once you reach altitude, and that’s all computerized now.”“But what about landing?” they asked.“Easy peasy. You aim the plane down, and when you hear the co-pilot scream, ‘OH MY GOD WE’RE GONNA CRASH!’ you pull back on the yoke, and land perfectly every time.”

Piloting just ain’t what it used to be! And neither are pilots!

@ Jeff0811I do not love wind shear. Years ago, I was flying into LaGuardia from Chicago aboard a 727, and we experienced a sudden, strong wind shear on final approach. Fortunately, our pilot (they had real ones, back then) was able to gun it, pull up, and abort. This was one week after a similar plane had crashed there due to wind shear. It was a very scary moment.

Aha, a northwest pilot then.

Candy Crush is fine. As long as he is not playing Crashy Plane…

Me, I play “Clicker Heroes”.

And how much are these guys paid for