Bollocks, pilots have always been considered professional. Airline pilots were born of the Second World War, airmen who survived. From those early days they were considered rightly or wrongly, men who were brave, competent, and intelligent. Your uniform marks you as a pilot, a person who has the brains and intelligence to understand the aircraft and the physics of flying, the ability to take a enormous piece of machinery that defies gravity to the other side of the world safely. You have public respect and you deserve it. We all know the struggle to achieve that LH seat, the endless study, the freckin manuals that clog up your study, and you would not have it any other way. Hold your heads high fella's you have followed a great tradition and some great pilots from the past. Be proud of your profession, it is a worthy one.
