If you hang out with enough pilots, you’re sure to hear some great sayings or expressions that make you crack a smile. Here are a few of our favorites:

• There are more planes in the ocean than there are submarines in the sky. – US Navy saying
• Never trade luck for skill.
• The three most common expressions (or famous last words) in aviation are: “Why is it doing that?”, “Where are we?” and “Oh S*#!!”
• Weather forecasts are horoscopes with numbers.
• Airspeed, altitude, or brains. Two are always needed to successfully complete the flight.
• The Piper Cub is the safest airplane in the world; it can just barely kill you. (Max Stanley, Northrop test pilot)
• A pilot who doesn’t have any fear probably isn’t flying his plane to its maximum. (Jon McBride, astronaut)
• You’ve never been lost until you’ve been lost at Mach 3. (Paul F. Crickmore, test pilot)
• Never fly in the same cockpit with someone braver than you.
• Now I know what a dog feels like watching TV. (A DC-9 captain trainee attempting to check out on the ‘glass cockpit’ of an A-320)