The issue isn’t “spawn cold and dark on Mt. Everest”, (though it might be valid as a search-and-rescue scenerio), it’s the ability to do normal things with normal aircraft in normal ways without using voodoo magic, smoke-and-mirrors, magic hats, and such like.
There are many reasonable possibilities:
- Spawn a seaplane (like the ICON) at a pier on the Moscow River, or somewhere on the Volga, etc.
- Start a helicopter flight from the flat roof of a building (that might even have a marked helipad) that’s not an “official” airport.
- Imagine having a field next to your house, (you live on a farm maybe?), and you want to be able to use your own “grass strip” (even if it’s not really a grass strip).
- You want to practice/pretend you are part of a search-and-rescue team putting down next to a burning/sinking ship mid-ocean.
Literally "the sky’s the limit and if you can imagine it, you can do it.
For example:
Did this guy REALLY do a “life flight”? No, he flew a simulated helicopter within a simulated world between two simulated places. It’s the ability to IMAGINE doing a life flight, (and delivering a needed organ for a desperately needed organ transplant or saving a life), that makes simming great.
And part of the fun of a flight simulator is that you can do “un-realistic” things like spawn on the lip of an active volcano, on the back of a whale, on the roof of the Taj Mahal, or in the central garden at the Pentagon.
And why not?