Leaving Los Angeles to for a Cold Golden Hour In Yosemite

Last night (Late Afternoon In LA) I flew from Los Angeles to Yosemite, Skywest flies the CRJ-200 In real life and with that being free I decided to try it. It’s amazing how In a 45 minute flight, the weather can go from 75 degrees to 20 degrees. Yosemite has a fun approach over the Sierra-Nevada Mountains and is 7000 feet above sea level.

Flight Details

Route: KLAX-KMMH
Airplane: Skywest CRJ-200
Flight Time: 41 minutes
Route:

Leaving a warm Los Angeles afternoon
Turning Northeast toward Yosemite and back over Los Angeles
Cruising over the Orange California deserts Starting to descend over the snow capped Sierra Nevadas Turning toward the airport in the Yosemite Valley Approaching MMH on a cold, breezy afternoon
Final approach from the flight deck On the ground in Yosemite

I tried to edit these to look realistic so please let me know what you think!

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Wow that’s cool they do look pretty realistic and the scenery is so nice

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Beautiful pics! great looking approach

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Nice shots!
I’ve flown to into mammoth more time than I can count, and it never gets old!
FYI MMH only gets CRJ-700s, the -200 doesn’t have the performance to get out of there.

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Thanks! And the scenery is definitely amazing

That livery gives me a throwback to the old CRJ days haha. Nice pics!

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These photos = Stunning.


Awesome job, I love these. Those mountains are so great!

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It’s a very fun approach! I ended up being too high so I had to do a slow 360 to lose some altitude

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Stunning picture man. The approach looks very realistic!

You are indeed correct, I don’t know why I said that the 200 flies in, and I’m jealous of you fly in a lot because I can imagine how amazing it is

Thanks! The mountains are fun to fly over in game too

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That’s some fun terrain and beautiful scenery! Nice shots of it too!

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Nice photos there! Looks like it was a stunning flight

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Looks like you came in at a bit of an angle there… 😬

Amazing scenery though.

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That pictures look great! I like the contrast. I looks like you had a rough approach!

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Great photos! Really good approach.

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Thanks! It was amazing in game how fast the scenery goes from Orange Mountains, to desert, to snow

It was! It’s definitely one I’ll fly again

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It was a little shaky on approach and the landing was pretty awful so that’s why I didn’t show the moment of touchdown 😬

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It was a little rough because I ended up being a little too high

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