Effectively, what proportion of any of the last ten years of CPL/ATPLs spent any time in GA?
How many of your airline colleagues spent time as an instructor... A sizable proportion and not a minority and asking new F/Os that have just joined is unfair since the self-improver route no longer exists.
With the self-improver route now gone and with modular trained pilots now being able to walk into a job after a few hundred hours, there is no need for new guys to grab a FI rating and built their experience. End result is that flying clubs loose business, customers get brassed off and in the worst case flying clubs close and people loose jobs.
Pro flying or qualifying for it is totally and utterly divorced from GA.
Not quite... remember that to start your ATPL exams on a modular course who need a PPL and a 100 hours and this is where the local flying club comes into play. There is no point getting FTOs to advertise for instructors since there is simply not enough out there. At my flying club there are no full time instructors... just airline chaps doing their bit for G/A. The PPL industry will fall flat on its face if airline pilots who wish to instruct are restricted from doing so.
GA doesn't do anything in their eyes and it's perfectly understandable
Unfortunately true since outside that grey building... is a large world that they are sadly not in touch with!