I know a guy who plays Ingress, the Pokemon Go precursor where different teams claim locatios. There's one valuable location on an island fort (Pampus) that's closed in winter, so every autumn there was always a flurry of players trying to be the last to claim it before the winter.
But this guy has a pilot license, so he just flies a sports plane over the island to claim it just after it closed.
There's travel privilege, and then there's renting an actual plane for a game.
Can confirm. I'm a pilot, and used to play Ingress pretty heavily, and while it's not the most reliable thing on the planet, a few of us had worked out "Planegress" pretty well. You have to be careful to not trip the "travel rate" limiters, so basically "pop online over the target area, and don't interact except over the target portal." Pilot plays around with slow flight (depending on winds aloft, in the range of 30-40mph ground speed), passengers do what needs to be done. I never messed with it, but some people used HAM radio equipment for remote connectivity for Ingress as well, or satellite based stuff.
But it's absolutely "an excuse to go do some precision ground reference slow flight in areas you wouldn't normally be."
But this guy has a pilot license, so he just flies a sports plane over the island to claim it just after it closed.
There's travel privilege, and then there's renting an actual plane for a game.