Originally Posted by
LeoSV
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.
Sadly, your instructor was a useless pile of meat in the cockpit if he did not gain anything more after 1 month of instructing - I find that hard to believe. Odds are it was just a cocky statement to make himself feel like a bada$$.
As had been said before, 121 is just a set of regs, not too much different from part 91, that anybody can read from a book. As for flying in the flight levels, its just like flying at 5000 feet, only there are no VFR guys up there and the radios are less congested. Oh yea, when you check in, you get to sound cool by saying "flight level......" WOW!