I think we all should have a meet-n-greet somewhere and get the ball rolling on forming a group or association. The FAA smiles kindly on professional/amateur associations/groups rather than individuals. The FAA's NPRM (Notice of Proposed Rule Making) regarding the commercial use of "drones" ended April 24th, I hope all of you contributed your thoughts to the FAA regarding this. I'm a member of the AMA (Academy of Model Aeronautics) a non-profit organization that worked with the FAA to come up with some of their proposed rules regarding model quads for amateur use and commercial use. I highly suggest you join the AMA. With that small pitch out of the way, forming a Central Florida UAS (Unmanned Aircraft System) Association or Group would put us on the map with the FAA, legitimizing our existence, and putting a good "face" on the sport and commercial use of quadcopters. Unless you don't know, the FAA calls our "drones" UAS's, not UAV's or Quads. The only way this would work is if we formed a group. One person can't do it all and using "UAS" in our group/association name will give us legitimacy. I'm sure there may be other quad-groups in Central Florida but most of them evolved from fixed-wing R/C aircraft groups/associations and they have a bit of an elitist attitude regarding fixed-wing vs Quads, and they usually do not look kindly upon quadcopter users/operators like us, they consider themselves real pilots whereas they see quadcopters as something that takes no skill to fly. I don't want to get into a discussion/argument about fixed-wing vs Quadcopter, but I think us forming a quadcopter (and include multi-rotor too) only group/association would benefit us all. I also think once this happens, we can start with doing what they used to do in the early days of biplane flight: have "barnstorming" events where the public can come and see quads fly and to see that they aren't so "evil" after all. I'm open to any ideas or suggestions.