http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AH-64_Apache

I'm no army pilot, but isn't it kind of dumb for that guy to fly so close to traffic?

Not really since the AH-64 Apache was built to hug the ground, using the natural layout of the land as cover. Though I don't know I mean the thing does cost north of US$14 million.

I meant dumb as in he could crash into a truck very easily or be victim of an impromptu saboteur. He could fly higher and cover more area and be more effective against targets. That low flying just seems like showing off or needless intimidation.

He's be INCREDIBLY weak and vulnerable if he flew higher!

In a combat environment, anyway: if you're higher off the ground it's easier for enemy radar to pick you up and blow you out of the sky. By being low to the ground, only people/SAM batteries directly within a narrow envelope of your flight path have a chance of harming you.

But of course it's a bit risky on the highway in peacetime; that's the nature of showing off.

I think thats how they took out those Blackhawks in Mogadishu, Somalia. Though am not suprised to see it fly so low, at the start of the 2nd Gulf War the largest helicopter attack force moved into Iraq from bases in Kuwait. They moved in pack formation hugging the ground about as low as seen here avoiding SA2s, SAMs and the like.

However flying so low does have it's dangerous, an Apache helicopter was taken down in Iraq early in the war, I don't know if you guys remember that famous photo of a Iraqi farmer next to it in a low level lake surrounded by green reeds.

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