[4K] - Incredible Reno Landing - New Pacific Airlines - Boeing 757-200 - RNO - N627NP - SCS 1184

[@pacnwguy9056]

Reno is beautiful buried in snow on a sunny day...Lake Tahoe even more so.

[@z90777]

Beautiful scenic approach!

[@sla31]

Sometimes all the stars align and the weather is good, I'm on the good light side of the plane, and there's a clear beautiful landscape out the window. This was one of those times. Thanks for watching man!

[@allanpeters4403]

This is a beautiful scenic trip - WOW!! Tks.

[@sla31]

Glad you enjoyed it my friend!

[@yz250lover3]

Absolutely breathtaking footage thanks for always doing the lords work for us Aviation Geeks your hard work never goes unappreciated!

[@hopespringseternal2624]

Wow, what a smooth landing! I live right over the mountain from there.

[@jaynichols7932]

Well done - excellent. You post great high quality videos on this channel. My is the 757.. Nonetheless all the videos awesome

[@sla31]

Glad you enjoyed it my friend! Thanks for watching!

[@scottbridge9391]

WOWOWOWOW!!! Super-Fantabulous views!!! I visited Reno back in February 1996 for 3 days and loved the scenery around the city. RNO is only about 90 minutes from here by plane. OK, time for me to get back to watching Mothra vs Godzilla. That egg would've made a Godzilla-sized omelet.

[@corvette1965]

Very Cool! 👍👍

[@Sammysaviation]

Just can't beat the 757!

[@skyaviationjal]

Thanks for the vid

[@sla31]

My pleasure my friend!

[@Pipemonkey]

Just stunning, thank you 🙏

[@sla31]

Glad you enjoyed it my friend!

[@JayseGreene]

Wow that was a butter's landing!

[@markroman8459]

it certainly was. 757 in the hands of a good pilot can do that all day long.

[@partyrock2081]

I love it!

[@RoadsOfAsiaBen]

Great fly! Didn't they announced that they will end scheduled flights 2 months ago and focus on charter flight?

[@sla31]

Yes, you can no longer fly on New Pacific unless you happen to be a part of one of the groups that charters them.

[@skyaviationjal]

How do you fly so much

[@skyaviationjal]

😂

[@sla31]

Well, it's a bit of a long story so I'll try to shorten it up. I graduated college with two bachelor degrees in 2012. One in Airport Management and the other in Aviation Management. I then spent 6 years working for Envoy Air and American Airlines before getting a job with the City of Joplin, Missouri as an aircraft rescue firefighter and airport operations specialist. The latter being more in my education's wheelhouse. That said, the 6 years I spent with Envoy/American was super fun. I had flight benefits and my wife and I flew all over the place for free. It was "the good old days" before kids and all kinds of other adult stuff haha. Well, during that time at American, in 2015, I started this channel. At the time it wasn't even called Skylite Productions. It was still just my name and I started uploaded takeoff and landing clips just for fun. I love aviation, commercial aviation, and traveling. So, I started recording like 5-15 minute clips and uploading them on here. I almost marked them all private as I really just intended for it to be a logbook of my flying. I honestly didn't think other people would even watch them haha. Well, turns out other did want to watch them. The channel wasn't even monetized back then and I don't think I got my first check from KZbin for ad revenue payments until 2019. So for 4 solid years, it was literally just something I was doing for myself and for fun. Well, after I left American and got the job with the City of Joplin is when I monetized the channel. See, before then I was flying for free. Which was great on the wallet, but came with some strings attached. It was very clear in the American Airlines non-rev rules that you were not to "profit" in any way from you flight benefits and you were to use them for personal use only. So, that's why I'd never monetized any of my content. Well, once I left America and didn't see myself ever going back since I had really only worked there for the flight benefits, I then monetized the channel. It took KZbin over a year to then approve the channel. So it was January-ish of 2018 before I was even eligible to earn ad revenues. But the channel was still pretty small then. I mean I don't remember how big it was, but I wasn't even pulling in enough money per month to meet KZbin's minimum payout amount. In 2019 that changed though. I took American's last MD-80 flight and I also had a flight with a crazy turbulent approach, and another with a mechanical emergency landing. Those three things happening so close together kind of rocketed my channel up and it was then that I got my first check from KZbin. It was a whole $134. Not much, but hey. I was now 3 years removed from free flight benefits so I'd been pumping a considerable amount of money into the channel those 3 years. I mean, everything you've seen on here since January of 2017 I have paid for out of my own pocket. So I was thrilled to get anything haha. Fast forward to today and the channel has slowly grown every year, and in January of 2022 I left my job at the city to run this channel full time. So, as you can see, it was a long road to get to that point, and it was never something I planned. It all just kind of happened because I had a passion and I was just happy to share it online with others. Now, I'm by no means pulling in tons of money haha. This is all still a carefully budgeted affair every month, but I'm pleasantly surprised with the course everything has taken. I never thought my diplomas would be in a box in my closet and I'd be filming flights all over the world with iPhones, but that's where I am now. So, the TLDR version is that this channel is now the reason why I fly so much. Because it's my full time job, and uploading a new video every day requires a lot of flying haha.

[@Spoolingturbski]

757 is the engineers plane.

[@partyrock2081]

Can you give me the flight information about the upcoming southwest Ontario flight

[@sla31]

It was Southwest flight 3936 with service from ONT-DEN on January 12 of this year.

[@Saa42808]

👍

[@sla31]

Thanks for watching my friend!