I have always thought that a good test of how well regarded and professional a group is is by seeing how much notice is taken of that group by the decision makers.
I think that puts GA pilots at about 1 on a scale of 1 to 100.
Airline pilots since 1989 may make 2.
In retrospect that is being too generous when one considers the standard of posting on these forums where any thread is lucky to last one page before the bitching and backbiting starts.
