Well, it is October, so I suppose getting on the stick could be flying across the moon in one's black threads...

This makes more sense to me than the other aviation suggestion since only smaller, or single seat aircraft have sticks (often called "Joysticks," no doubt for naughty reasons, since they're between the legs). Larger, and modern commercially produced small planes have wheels or yokes instead. There are a couple of ultra-modern airliners that have gone back to the stick, but it's side-mounted.