In the early ’90s, Lt. Col. Shawn Coco watched the LSU pregame from the vociferous student section. But Saturday, Coco will see the pregame from 1,000 feet above the ground in his fighter jet as it screams over the Baton Rouge skyline traveling around 400 mph.Coco — a University alumnus and Baton Rouge native — will be one of two pilots flying F-15s over Tiger Stadium during pregame Saturday.”I have been going to games all my life,” Coco said, “so I am very honored to be doing this. I have been looking forward to the opportunity.”The flyover will take place at the end of the national anthem at 6:57 p.m. Capt. Craig Llorance, assistant professor of aerospace studies and Commandant of Cadets for the University’s Air Force ROTC program, said the flyover is not difficult to execute, though the flight is planned to the second. Llorance said in the past, Tiger Band officials have helped coordinate the flyover because they know the exact length of pregame events.The two jets will do a practice pass over Northwestern State in Natchitoches 25 minutes before the game — a three-hour drive by car — and return to Baton Rouge with plenty of time to spare before their pregame pass over Death Valley.”There are restrictions on how fast we can fly [over the stadium], so we will go to about 350 knots, which is not really that fast,” Coco said.The FAA also restricts the jets from flying lower than 1,000 feet above the ground, Llorance said.Llorance said he requested another flyover for this year’s game against Auburn. It is pending approval.The ROTC had flyover plans foiled by bad weather before the game against Vanderbilt. Llorance said the only things that could stop the flyover from happening Saturday are bad weather or mechanical issues.—-Contact Xerxes A. Wilson at [email protected]