No BS, I'm afraid...
Said QF Captain has popped up in many places before with "arrangements" like this. The common theme is that he seems to leave a trail of destruction in his quest to assuage an ego that's bigger than he is! I've learnt this first hand, to my cost.
One of the lads he recently did an "interview ride" on told me that he was advised by said QF Captain to go to Brisbane and get some 200 series training... then come back in six months time and try again. Silly lad actually did that, to no avail...
I hope he doesn't cause grief to AF, the current CP could do such rides himself or if not, identify a pilot internally who has some instructing history to look at the prospectives.