Survival is usually about the ability to adapt to the environment you find yourself in, rather than demanding that the environment should adapt itself to you.
The most efficient form of adaptation might be diversification. That means - find something else to do, if you can. It also means forewarning the naiive and the dreamers, which the OPs post helps to do. I also make that my crusade.
Flying is a game for idiots and losers with no other options. Only those who are already too old to adapt have any excuse for staying.