the instructors have to teach things that are very tough to teach and completely pointless
Could anyone be specific about which aspects of ATPLs are not relevant to flying commercially? The only subject I can think of is a fair amount of air law which seemed to more relevant to ATC and the comms exams seem quite pointless too. Other than that, basic knowledge in the engineering, basic nav, automation, FMS, PoF 'n' Perf, physiology, psychology, ops and the relevant chunks of airlaw would I think be a reasonable grounding. Or am I missing something?