In my previous post I failed to mention why the copilot was insistant that I "finish school". My father met him in New Guinea in 1935 when he was flying the aircraft pictured below. When war broke out he returned to Australia to fly transport aircraft (DC-3). Following the war when licencing requirements changed he did not have the education (mathematics in particular) to be able to pass the exams. Even though he was probably the most senior man in the airline (Guinea Airways) he lived out his days in the copilots seat.
