Guys, I'm glad you liked the popcorn joke, but 711, I have to say you have it wrong with your comments about pilots ignorance.
I have flown with pilots for whom flying was a second career, and in previous lives they were Lawyers, Doctors (including a heart transplant surgeon), Economists (one flew with me the other day), Engineers, Mathematicians, Research Scientists, and Piano Players in whorehouses.
Overall, the breadth of knowledge and experience I often discover in my colleagues leaves me in awe, and I ask them - WTF are you doing in THIS job?
Mostly they got into it because they needed a CHALLENGE(!) and were bored to death doing whatever they did before.
Don't make the mistake of thinking that everybody flying airplanes is an "overpaid moron" - which is what I believe certain CX management are famous for announcing.