A Clear Sky in the Mile High City to a Morning in Yosemite National Park

[NoahM]

DENVER to MAMMOTH YOSEMITE

Last weekend I was really in the mood to fly the CRJ 700 or 900, not the 200 because it’s super ugly. I have no idea why I wanted to fly the CRJ because I don’t even know how to take off smoothly, let alone land smoothly. I decided to fly Denver to Mammoth Yosemite. The United CRJ-700 is used in real life for this flight. Yosemite is a really fun airport being at almost 8,000 feet MSL. United Express (SkyWest) fly to MMH from LAX, SFO, and Denver. I flew in from Denver and continued to San Francisco, so you may see that portion of the flight another time. Flight time was 1 hour 56 minutes

Flight Details

KDEN-KMMH • DEN-MMH
Denver to Mammoth Lakes
SkyWest 5643
CRJ-700
1:56
@JulianB

Rotating out of Denver on a Clear March Morning

Putting the gear up as we blast toward the Rocky Mountains

Climbing out over downtown Denver

The brown and bland deserts of Fillmore, Utah

Battling the JetStream over the town of Ely, Nevada

Starting to descend toward Yosemite as the brown ground turns to mountain

Putting the gear down as we hug the mountain line of Yosemite National Park

On final approaching Yosemite’s very narrow runway

Touching down as the fog rolls in!

Parked at the stand prepping for our trip to the bay city

As always please let me know your thoughts and your favorite photo!

Yosemite is known for being the birthplace of what sport?

• Skiing
• Rock Climbing
• Bobsledding

The answer to the last question was French!

A Cloudy Morning on the Persian Gulf to a Clear Sky in Geneva

DOHA to GENEVA So I’ve been looking at this flight for a while because of its amazing scenery, and I finally got the change to fly it two weeks ago. This flight, just like my Vienna to Madeira flight, I had to wake up at 2:30 AM, fly the plane to 10,000 feet and then sleep for the next 5 hours. It was a stunning flight and using the Qatar A350, which they use in real life, was a lot of fun. The real life callsign is Qatari 99 which was also randomly cool. Flight time was 5 hours and 56 minutes …

[JulianB]

@NoahM

The answer to the last question was French!

Probably my guess wasn’t too right the last time then…

Anyways back on topic: Great pictures of an aircraft, which I wished would have a Live Cockpit. Really an agile and interesting aircraft!

Also once again fantastic pictures of this special looking bird with the tail engines! Even though I really love the wing view, I have to go with the great cockpit view of the narrow runway and stunning scenery of the destination airport as my favourite today:

@NoahM

On final approaching Yosemite’s very narrow runway

As always, thanks for sharing!

[ThomasThePro]

Wow @NoahM looked like an enjoyable flight!

[NoahM]

Thanks! The CRJ has an awesome cockpit and adding live instruments would be the icing on the cake! It’s fun to fly because of its versatility and how it can fly into small and narrow airports like this one. Even though I can’t land it to save my life.

[NoahM]

It was a lot of fun to fly!!!

[JulianB]

@NoahM

It’s fun to fly because of its versatility and how it can fly into small and narrow airports like this one.

Always great to fly to such places!

[NoahM]

Yes it is! I want to find more airports like this one that are so tiny and isolated. MMH actually doesn’t even have a control tower!

[United2]

Great pics. really like the narrow runway at Yosemite. As a member of UVAL this is now on my bucket list

[Luke_Sta]

Hope you enjoyed coming to Denver! Tag me when ever you fly in or out of this great airport :)

[JulianB]

@NoahM

MMH actually doesn’t even have a control tower!

This is much smaller then the airports I fly to commercially. Insane!

[NoahM]

@United2 you definitely should! The flight only takes 20-30 minutes from Los Angeles or San Francisco

@Luke_Sta Okay! I’ll do that whenever I have a Denver post