Originally Posted by
de727ups
"I have been told by pilots that instructing won't teach you a thing about the 121 world"
Sounds like something Skyhigh would say.
I'd traslate that to mean "instructing is a waste of time if you can get a regional job sooner than later". This is a popular belief. And I'm all for moving up the career ladder ASAP. But not at the expense of putting a well qualified warm body in the right seat. Flight instructing is one way of expanding one's experience level to become a better jet F/O.
It wasn't Skyhigh that said this to me. I have never talked to Skyhigh, but I do read his posts. It was my old instructor from LZU. He instructed for 14 months, and when he finally got hired on to express, he told me that he could have instructed for 1 month and still have the same knowledge because once you get into 121, everything is different. Flying at FL340, more congested radios, tighter schedules, complex airplanes and regs.. blah blah blah.. That is why I brought it up. Like I said, I am not commercial yet, so I was merely trying to get input from you guys.