It's called networking nightprowler.
If you are a pilot with the experience you mentioned, and I'm assuming you are finding difficulty breaking into the local scene, then maybe you shouldn't have left your previous employ untill you had found something else!
Times have never been better for up and coming aviators, but there still has to be reason. Perhaps the circuit queens you refer to have in their own way proven themselves to these operators. If you are a new kid on the block you still may have to wait your turn. Take a step back and try and look at things from more than one perspective.
Just advice. Take it or leave it!