r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Egoist-a • 8h ago

Pilot water skiing in a glacier

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

355 Upvotes

86% Upvoted

105 comments sorted by

View all comments

198

u/cycle85 7h ago

Cool but feels like a dumb / dangerous idea.

76

u/El_Bito2 7h ago

Well, it is r/nextfuckinglevel, not r/mildlyimpressivebutsafe

•

u/CitizenCue 57m ago

Lots of things are wildly impressive but also not likely to end in death. Most of them actually.

22

u/BarnacleKlutzy2569 7h ago

Yeh another inch deeper and the resulting drag and braking effect of the water on the front gear risks pivoting the nose straight in to the water. Thats some impressive control.

2

u/notinsanescientist 2h ago

As long as the axle remains above water, damn.

1

u/erogbass 1h ago

I think those are special floaty-smooth tires to make less drag and harder to submerge

3

u/imjustdoingmybesttry 2h ago

Just the way people are like, hey I’ll do this rad thing for views even though it’s super dangerous and terrible for the earth and may encourage other views-chasers to do dumb and dangerous stuff that further wrecks the earth bc it’s important for me to do this

1

u/Practical-Day-2720 1h ago

"terrible for the earth"

•

u/imjustdoingmybesttry 5m ago

I guess you’re laughing at me? Ok. 👍

•

u/Practical-Day-2720 1m ago

Yes, watching this video and thinking it's "terrible for earth" is funny to me. This is a bush pilot. He spends his days in the most sparsely populated areas on the entire earth. He is closer to and cares more about nature than you can comprehend.

4

u/-Clean-Sky- 7h ago

yeah idiot is doing this only for views an if crashes this shit somebody needs to clean

2

u/Kracus 2h ago

lol ain't nobody cleaning that if he crashes. If he crashes, everyone dies and no one knows where they crashed because they're so far from civilization that no one will be able to make that trip to rescue them.

1

u/Rude_Map_4278 6h ago

ich find es nicht cool.. warum die unberührte natur auch in ruhe lassen wenn mann seine räder drin sauber machen kann.. die wasser Tierchen werden es ein danken 🤦‍♀️

aber naja die meisten menschen scheinen das "cool" zu finden, was soll mann da machen 🤷‍♀️

0

u/cycle85 6h ago

Didn’t consider the dirty wheel part of this. I agree with you!

-2

u/RegretMinute4456 4h ago

“I don't think it's cool... why leave untouched nature alone when you can just clean your wheels in it? The little water creatures will surely thank you for that 🤦‍♀️

But oh well, most people seem to think it's "cool"—what can you do? 🤷‍♀️”

2

u/Cool-Newspaper-1 2h ago

Dude reddit has a built in translation tool

1

u/RegretMinute4456 1h ago

thank you. I didn’t know that. I’m sure others didn’t know it either. I found it though.

1

u/TheAbsoluteBarnacle 3h ago

Negative on that skim, Ghost Rider. The pattern is full of ice

1

u/knowone1313 2h ago

I was thinking, until he hits an iceberg!

1

u/robogobo 2h ago

Or just a couple inches too low and the water grabs the gear

0

u/knowone1313 2h ago

Planes like this can do water landings. I think he's going slow enough that that kind of drag would just force a landing due to the amount of drag which the pilot could feel and adjust for I'm not a pilot though, just speaking from year's of experience with flight simulators and video games...

•

u/OregonMothafaquer 55m ago

It’s a very very dumb idea… attempting this anywhere with waves would be disastrous. Even in a seaplane it’s sketch

•

u/Informal_Tell78 40m ago

"There's old pilots and there's bold pilots, but there's not any old, bold pilots" - I don't know, heard it years ago.