As I suppose . . a bit of an aside. ... W/C Harry Purvis RAAF was in command of a transport wing during the Second World War. . . He had a new recruit as an FO who had just come out of his basic training at Point Cook . . A confidential note in his file was addressed to Harry . . "Do what you can with this man. He is the sort who pulls on doors marked 'Push'. " Harry had a load of army top brass to take from Brisbane to Melbourne, with a stop in Sydney. Harry gave the landing in Sydney to the FO. He kangarooed the C47 down the runway. Taxying in Harry said to him to go back and make an apology to the passengers.
A week later Harry encountered one of those army senior ranks, who said to Harry that the young sprog had said to them, after the awful landing, that "Wing Commander Purvis is sorry about that arrival just now. He asked me to say of late he has been flying a desk and is hence a bit rusty".