I feel pretty much the same way. I've been a member for 30 years and I have always been proud to be a member, and of the organization itself. I'm not sure if you remember, but I was very vocal about the drone issue as soon as it started to get bad press in the mainstream media. There were a handful of folks, mostly long-time modelers and Hobby Industry Insiders and business owners that petitioned the AMA to do more to create separation from autonomous flight. At a minimum, to treat it as different from traditional LOS flight, and to help educate the FAA and other Government agencies of, not only the differences between the two, but how they affect the NAS in vastly different ways. The AMA completely ignored the petition, I don't believe they even sent a canned response letter back to the principal parties, and that group took a lot of heat from the modeling community for being, "anti-drone" and exclusionary in trying to divide and segregate the hobby. Looking back, as hindsight is 20-20, it appears that we were right and ironically, even those that were throwing stones at us then are now acknowledging that the AMA should (or should have) distinguished that separation!

Regards,

Astro