Well, from the looks of that roll he pulled up into, it doesn't seem his pants were too soiled.

pause it at 58 seconds and it looks like this guy came within 10 feet of a very bad day

hoooooooooooly shit.

The altimeter: you reset it before flight.

now his insurance premium is gonna be 286.3 million francs.

He had it under control.

lol............... wow. That was insane.

I'm pretty sure he had it well under control and it was quite intentional, just search the internet for the french pilots' videos and you'll see they're not the crappiest bunch =)

That's called a Low-By. It looked pretty intentional.

I have to agree that he was completely under control. If he was the least bit worried he would've gunned the throttle. From the sound of it he left it alone.

That's why they invented the Poopie Suit.

There's a term for it: If you pull too many g's, you can black-out. If you do what that pilot just did, you can brown-out.

It looks a bit more dangerous than it actually is; getting that close to the ground creates a trampoline like effect. Don't get me wrong, you have to be pin point accurate. Hat's off to the guy, he's got big ones.

Very impressive, but I also agree he was mostly in control. He had opportunities to pull up before getting that close to the water.

Trying to impress the guys no doubt.

Don't get me wrong guys, I'm sure he didn't spend the next week crying into his blankie, but I think this may be one of those "finding the limit" moments where you make a mental note not to go that close again. As sillma points out, these French pilots seem to have a bit of a penchant for low passes, so it's pretty obvious that the move in general was no mistake.

Yoghurt - Clearly the roll was to shake his enormous balls back out from where they had sharply retracted moments earlier

The French call that flying style "rase motte" (pronounced razmott), which roughly translates into "mowing the grass".

>> ^MINK:
now his insurance premium is gonna be 286.3 million francs.


Why francs?

>> ^Abducted:
>> ^MINK:
now his insurance premium is gonna be 286.3 million francs.

Why francs?


Ummm... cuz the pilot is French?

French pilots are the best at those sort of pushing-the-edge-of-the-envelope maneuvers. They can run away from any other country's pilots easily.

Surely its 46.3 Million Euros.

This reminds me of that chapter in Catch-22 with McWatt and Kid Sampson, although this ends much more happily.

Remind me again guys - why are we assuming the pilot is male?

Iranian pilots can pull even more similarly impressive stunts (hint, hint : bombing them not a good idea)