Thanks for the explanation!
George's comment came in the early days of 'CRM' and against a background of Nimrod flying. All the 'call-outs', height alerters and other audio were new to him - hence the amusing simile.
Nothing against the TriShaw or its crews. In fact I once went into bat for one crew at MPA - 'inexpert' observers had said that a TriStar had flown an unstable approach onto the easterly ("I thought it was going to crash....
") and some Wg Cdr wanted to hold an enquiry....
Wading through the tape transcripts etc, apart from getting low on the GS after rather a rushed feed in, nothing seemed particularly unusual - and we all know how tricky the wind was at MPA, so a twitch on late final was hardly surprising. Anyway, I persuaded the fellow that there wasn't anything to investigate - apart, perhaps from the less than perfect radar feed in (which was surprising as MPA ATC was normally excellent). So he got back into his box and that was the end of it.