The opening session of the AOPA Aviation Summit earlier this month featured something that GA has not seen before: The leaders of all GA’s alphabet groups on the same stage.

Previous rivalries were put aside as the leaders of those groups — the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, National Business Aviation Association, General Aviation Manufacturers Association, National Air Transportation Association, Aircraft Electronics Association, Women in Aviation and the Experimental Aircraft Association — discussed their efforts to defend GA against politicians who don’t have a clue, the mainstream media that continues its attacks on GA, and a public that doesn’t understand what GA is all about.

AOPA’s President Craig Fuller noted that by joining forces, the alphabet groups represent 500,000 people — a number that catches the attention of those in Washington, D.C.

“It shows the power of combining our forces,” he said.

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