Problem is, a certain proportion of all pilots and engineers progress onto other things, whether it's instructors, test pilots / engineers, authors of textbooks, etc. etc.

So, it's an inevitable fact of life that everybody needs educating a bit beyond what they're expected to start out needing, so that they've got the ability to progress beyond.

Another way to look at it, is that you teach more than they'll need, and hope the most important core of knowledge remains.

Yet another way to look at it, is that you never know when that obscure bit of knowledge you never thought you'd need will help you to extract yourself from the mire.

G

John and Ghengis and I all agree. There is more to the ATPL than just the specific bits of knowledge that tick the boxes. You are learning to be a pilot, top of the world, pushing the frontiers of understanding, not just of technical matters, but of human behaviour and human failings. Go for it, get all you can.

Dick W

For example, I have just learnt how to spell Genghis.