Originally Posted by LeoSV

What he is trying to say is that knowledge and experience are 2 completely different things. if you graduated from law school with all A's, would you be as good of a lawyer as somebody who has actually been working cases for 10 years? Usually not. There are always exceptions, but they are just that, exceptions, not the rule. The same thing as flying. You can know the rules and procedures from head to toe, but until you actually put them to use, you haven't proven anything. ATP gets you the ratings, but not the experience. That's what odd jobs are for before you enter 121.