OK, maybe the words you used mean something different to you than they do to me. The water in the video is by no means "calm" as in glassy water whcih is hard to judge height, It's not whipped into a malestrom by a storm, but there is more than sufficient wave action to provide good depth perception. And if I were to use the words "simply misjudged his altitude" I would be describing something where the misjudgment of altitude was the sole factor. I wouldn't use them to describe an incident where the pilot was maneuvering aggressively, including rapid altitude changes as low as a few feet above the water. To me, that isn't "simply misjudging his altitude", there's some other stuff going on which is a significant factor in the accident. But again, perhaps those words mean something different to you than they do to me.
Last edited by A Squared; 11th Nov 2017 at 20:43.