LouW,

The interest and humor of a 747 Captain learning to fly RC is pretty obvious. There is not much interest or humor in hearing about an accountant learning to fly RC. This is not a show of disrespect for a 747 Captain's ability to pilot a jumbo jet. In fact it is quite the opposite in that most of us get a kick out of the fact we can do something that someone with such extensive flight training and skill has to go through the much the same process we did to fly RC. I do not think you will find any RC pilots that would claim they could fly a 747 as a result of their experience flying RC planes.
Surely you can see the humor in someone who pilots 747 getting help learning to fly RC. Humor does not imply disrespect for the individual, just the irony of the situation. Consider the following and see if you find it humorous. I'm teaching an RC pilot to fly a real plane. Not funny as it is pretty obvious that flying RC does not qualify you to fly solo a real plane and one would need training.