Many moons ago a Victor captain was selected to train up as an Air to Air Refuelling Instructor, He was already qualified, of course, to receive fuel whilst sitting in the left hand seat. Now was to was the time to see how he got on in the right hand seat, He joined and moved astern smoothly so was cleared for contact. He approached rather fast and high, his instructor told him to drop back. Unfortunately he reverted to his left hand seat procedures, attempting to lower the nose by pushing forward the centre position throttles and pulling back on the stick thinking he was throttling back. The susequent bunt to recover found three rear crew members attached to the cabin roof and understandingly somewhat upset. The weather at base had gone nasty so the aircraft was gently flown to a diversion airfield where the rear crew were at least partialy recompensed in the bar. The pilot did not become an AARI.