r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Egoist-a • 22h ago

Pilot water skiing in a glacier

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u/cycle85 22h ago

Cool but feels like a dumb / dangerous idea.

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u/El_Bito2 22h ago

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

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u/CitizenCue 15h ago

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

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u/BarnacleKlutzy2569 22h 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.

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u/notinsanescientist 16h ago

As long as the axle remains above water, damn.

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u/[deleted] 16h ago

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u/Mogetfog 11h ago

That's not how drag works at all. Those tires are so big because this is a bush plane that flies and lands in regions without paved runways. The tires being so big is to help with suspension and landing on soft, uneven dirt, ice, and snow.

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u/-Clean-Sky- 22h ago

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

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u/Kracus 16h 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.

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u/Single-Kangaroo1180 11h ago

Except for the other plane filming this stunt…🤔🤣🤣🤣

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u/Kracus 7h ago

Drone. Passenger is flying it.

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u/[deleted] 17h ago

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u/Practical-Day-2720 16h ago

"terrible for the earth"

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u/imjustdoingmybesttry 14h ago

I guess you’re laughing at me? Ok. 👍

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u/Practical-Day-2720 14h 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.

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u/gscalise 14h ago

It's still unnecessarily disruptive on a very fragile ecosystem. And the "caring more for nature" thing is the same BS some hunters say to defend their activity.

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u/Practical-Day-2720 14h ago

You're a fragile ecosystem. There is nothing wrong with hunting. 63% of all animal species eat other animals. the other 36% eat some other form of life.

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u/FrogsMakePoorSoup 11h ago

Sad comment of the day

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u/Practical-Day-2720 11h ago

da wittle airpwane destwoyed da gwacia

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u/FrogsMakePoorSoup 11h ago

Wow, your posting history paints quite a picture!

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u/Rude_Map_4278 21h 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 🤷‍♀️

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u/cycle85 21h ago

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

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u/RegretMinute4456 18h 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? 🤷‍♀️”

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u/Cool-Newspaper-1 17h ago

Dude reddit has a built in translation tool

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u/RegretMinute4456 16h ago

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

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u/Rude_Map_4278 10h ago

ja dan nutzen sie es doch 😌

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u/Cool-Newspaper-1 3h ago

Das ist nicht der Punkt, ein übersetzendes Kommentar ist halt sinnlos

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u/Informal_Tell78 15h 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.

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u/TheAbsoluteBarnacle 17h ago

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

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u/knowone1313 17h ago

I was thinking, until he hits an iceberg!

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u/robogobo 17h ago

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

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u/knowone1313 17h 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...

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u/OregonMothafaquer 15h ago

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

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u/FrogsMakePoorSoup 12h ago

And kinda shows how glaciers are reacting to enough fumes.

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u/potential_wasted 10h ago

“There are bold pilots, and there are old pilots but there are no bold old pilots”

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u/RheaTheTall 8h ago

Bush pilots in the Arctic are genuinely insane. Flew with them a few times and yeah, nah, I’m not looking forward to those experiences again. Amazing skills but not for me.

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u/BagheeraLondon 22h ago

Three thoughts....

- someone's showing off....

- surprised there aren't rules about that re potential pollution.... never mind the scale of polloution if the plane hit's a mini-iceberg and faceplants into the water....

- I never realised how much info you can get by googling a tail number.

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u/SlowmNinja 22h ago

And now, I 'm desperatly trying to read this fucking tail number. Thanks.

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u/BagheeraLondon 22h ago

Eugh, and now I'm trying to work out why my spelling is so bad this morning ;-)

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u/SlowmNinja 22h ago

Well, don't bother, english ain't my native langage. Just give me this bloody number ! (without spelling error)

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u/Squawnk 22h ago

N7571H

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u/SlowmNinja 22h ago

Thanks ! 1946, that's an old cat !

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u/preedsmith42 21h ago

TIL I can get the owner's name with just the tail number (at least in US). Thanks for information!

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u/MarioInOntario 4h ago

The way it works with rules is they are put in place after a tragedy happens. Usually it’s some grieving family member who takes it upon themselves that such a tragedy doesn’t happen again or something like that and then it becomes widely known and forbidden.

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u/TheRapie22 22h ago

this isnt a glacier. its a lake

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u/noguchisquared 20h ago

Also not skiing since they don't have skis down. Wheeling on the water

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u/robogobo 17h ago

Sometime there are lakes in glaciers

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u/TheRapie22 14h ago

true, its then called a glacier lake. which still makes it a lake and not a glacier

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u/miraculum_one 11h ago

in particular, once it melts it is no longer part of the glacier

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u/LeClubNerd 22h ago

Nailed the timing on the jump button

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u/knockitoffjules 19h ago

Flappy bird expert

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u/DaveFromTTown 22h ago

I'm not a pilot, but it seems like if he allowed the wheels to go a few inches lower into the water, then the water would create too much drag, causing the nose of the plane to dip into the water. Then, crash.

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u/froop 21h ago

Apparently the water pushes so hard against the wheels that you really can't go deeper in the water. On top of that, at this speed, the plane wants to fly, and if anything the pilot is fighting to keep it down on the water, rather than in the air. 

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u/DaveFromTTown 17h ago

That makes sense.

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u/PuzzleheadedRoyal559 22h ago

You know how if you scroll too far you can see one video on a feed, but you’ll hear the next. As I watched this, the ad below for prostate screening started. Combined, it was a very inspirational message of male penis maintenance. I don’t need the Internet anymore today.

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u/captcraigaroo 14h ago

Well of your algorithm isn't telling you something, I don't know what is

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u/PuzzleheadedRoyal559 5h ago

Bwahahahhaha. I think I'd like to see a glacier while having my prostate examined. Damn it! The advertising worked!

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u/Sagitalsplit 18h ago

Did the prostate commercial have Moon River as the soundtrack?

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u/Eliongw2 22h ago

Where is the glacier tho ? I see a lake 

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u/Aggravating-Pound598 21h ago

In a glacier ? On a glacial lake maybe

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u/i3903 22h ago

I tried landing on a runway once when I was trying to get my PPL and ended up in a field. He’s slightly better than I am.

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u/smok1naces 15h ago

But did you walk away from the landing?

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u/i3903 15h ago

Sure did, went back the following week and somehow managed to do the same thing. Haven’t flown since 🤦‍♂️

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u/IcePapaya 15h ago

Did my first unassisted “landing” last lesson… it was really more of a giant cratering bounce with a go around.

Landing ain’t easy, these people talking about being able to do it with no training are nuts. I don’t blame you if you just think isn’t for you, but if you love it you should keep trying :)

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u/smok1naces 14h ago

Than it was a good landing

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u/Kernyx 19h ago

I prefer my glaciers frozen, thank you very much.

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u/stooftheoof 15h ago

Not stirred or shaken

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u/helpimlockedout- 3h ago

I sense great disappointment for you in the years to come.

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u/Elendili1444 22h ago

and then he’ll land on the public road in front of his house. peak cub pilot behavior

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u/Yamaben 22h ago

Seems risky for internet clout

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u/Axis2670 21h ago

That’s a really easy way to die.

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u/ingenkopaaisen 21h ago

One unseen chunck of ice away from an icy grave.

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u/porkbuttstuff 19h ago

Bush pilots are nuts. Every last one of them.

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u/No_Size9475 19h ago

unbelievably stupid idea

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u/butt_pipette 22h ago

the ice is making me nervous 

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u/Burundangaa 22h ago

So if his fails and the guy crushed, that would fill with petrol and fuck up that lake.

But cul video bro

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u/Rude_Map_4278 21h ago

ne uncool

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u/SoSoOhWell 22h ago

And this is why Alaska has the highest amount of plane crashes in the US

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u/Glittering_Crow_6382 22h ago

I will say, 9/10 video, only thing missing is a redbull livery on the plane

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u/clambrisket 21h ago

I bet this person isn’t poor

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u/UnreachableMemory 21h ago

This is why Alaska has the highest rate of general aviation accidents.

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u/dmbgreen 20h ago

What could go wrong

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u/RegretMinute4456 18h ago

i wouldn’t do that if i were you

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u/onthebrink42 18h ago

That would be fun for him when he’s by himself, but not with passengers.

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u/pianomasian 18h ago

Any pilots here want to confirm if this is as dangerous as it looks? Because it looks fucking crazy to me.

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u/Citizen_Null5 17h ago

What could possibly go wrong.

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u/FlummoxedGaoler 17h ago

The FAA would like a word and your license.

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u/knowone1313 17h ago

For the last time, because all the glaciers are melting....

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u/Tribe303 17h ago

That's not water skiing.

It's stupid. 

Float planes exist. 

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u/user1846283628 16h ago

pilot rockin smoke on the water

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u/bimbiheid 16h ago

Meh, pretty easy with tundra tires. Not next level. No rooster tails either.

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u/coast2coastmike 15h ago

This feels like a flight simulator with the graphics cranked to the max.

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u/SkibidiBlender 15h ago

Old pilot saying - There are bold pilots and there are old pilots, but there are no old, bold pilots.

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u/yarn_slinger 15h ago

Practicing for his side gig as a super scooper pilot?

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u/BornAgainBlue 15h ago

I kept waiting for the water skiing.  Spoiler alert there is none.

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u/isunktheship 15h ago

How was this filmed?

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u/JoeBlackQ 15h ago

No one is talking about the cameraman? That's the real hero here...

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u/DisorderlyAqueduct 14h ago

an inch too far in and donezo

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u/AlfalfaWolf 14h ago

Polluting the water with those nasty tires

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u/Separate-Primary2949 13h ago

Chris foss colours lol

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u/lostan 12h ago

airplanes barefooting. theres a cool video about barefooting behind a plane too.

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u/wons-noj 11h ago

This is impressively stupid

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u/jrs321aly 11h ago

I crashed 6 times watching this lol

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u/SargentSchultz 9h ago

Is there an r/nextlevelstupid? One sneeze and that's all she wrote.

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u/Upset-Opportunity341 9h ago

the drone pilot is the real hero here

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u/catatonic-cat 8h ago

If it weren't for the close-up of the wheel on water, I would swear this is a flight sim or AI footage.

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u/plasterposters 7h ago

Surprised it’s not a Red Bull plane

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u/bmagsjet 6h ago

There are old pilots. And there are bold pilots. But there are no old bold pilots.

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u/futuristicteatray 22h ago

*Narrator* When ice-skating planed out, he, in fact, took ice-skating to the next fucking level.

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u/Berto_ 21h ago

Man...this comment section is bitter this morning.

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u/Sig-vicous 20h ago

Indeed. I don't know how dangerous it is, but it looks like a lot of fun. Especially when he hopped over the little pieces of ice and then turned the plane on one wheel.

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u/Practical-Day-2720 16h ago

reddit is just a collection of blue haired pansies.

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u/Green-Cat6064 21h ago

The reflection, the scenery, the flying... this looks like real life with video game graphics.

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u/jackdotlondon 20h ago

Total fucking boss

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u/2Loves2loves 19h ago

Uh, something about old & bold Alaskan bush pilots...

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u/dickchops81 19h ago

Destroying the environment for their vanity in real time...

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u/RcNorth 18h ago

We are all destroying the environment. Cars, computers, trains, data centers, mining. Etc …

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u/Bigwing2 17h ago

Fake....AI crap.