Bumpy flight into Las Vegas aboard Southwest Airlines

[MrKyvegas00]

Vegas is usually a bumpy ride in due the windy conditions since the city is in a valley. Great city that I love to call home! Great video!

[MrBluefreako]

been to vegas 6 times, always a bumpy ride in but i LOVE the place, going in 2 weeks

[covewatcher]

As a frequent traveler to Las Vegas, I can tell you for the most part it doesn't matter if it is the perfect day or a stormy or windy day. The thermals coming up the face of the mountains, especially if landing from over Lake Mead make it a bumpy ride during landing no matter what. Usually it is rather uneventful, although I have had a couple of landings that made you wonder what the heck was going on !!! :-)

[Axmedkoole]

My favorite part of flying is when the airplane stalls and falls from the sky. Your stomach goes up your throat. What a thrill.

[AidyBrady]

WENT INTO VEGAS DURING A THUNDER STORM, SCARY. NEVER BOTHERED WITH THE GRAND AFTER THAT :(

[Physicspilot]

@AidyBrady LOL...my favorite part of flight is when it's bumpy!!

[Axmedkoole]

@Physicspilot My favorite part is when it stalls.

[AltAirPilot517]

@Axmedkoole well its not stalling its just descending :P stalling anywhere other than the final flare would be terrible

[Axmedkoole]

@AltAirPilot517, No I was just saying that I enjoy when airplanes stall. Well in FSX...

[greerzi]

My wife and I just came back from Vegas yesterday. We flew into vegas Sunday 5/8 --- 35MPH winds from the SW. It felt like the plane was getting whipped from side to side. Never want that experience again.

[MrGerhardkramer]

Turbulence is caused by the camera!

[BIGBREAKMAFIA1]

@MrGerhardkramer no its not 

[Physicspilot]

@MrGerhardkramer Nice try smartie pants...

[jeffro99518]

you will almost always have turbulance near vegas due to mountains, heat, and going over or near lake mead

[Filotimos]

Thanks, I enjoyed the scenery.

[gruntkid10]

live here and coming back we always get turbulance

[DelDrew]

it's always hard to tell just how bumpy these flights ppl film on youtube really are.

[bigdofba]

It's funny that a lot of you mention turbulence when flying into Vegas because I had a similar experience.

My girlfriend and I flew to Vegas from Oklahoma last February and I experienced some of the worst turbulence of my life on my connecting flight out of Denver.

Somewhere over the mountains of Colorado and Utah the plane began hitting all kinds of bumps, started shaking left and right, and the worst was when we suddenly lost altitude after a big bump. It made me sick.

[lvbearboy]

Typical day of flying in vegas, it's probably hot. That's what happens when it gets hot, rising termals, bumpy ride. That is just light turb though, try it in small planes, that is much funner.

[thestinkygooch1]

how much for plane very very good

[aelex33]

@thestinkygooch1 it depends first class is usually 500 and up depends on what flight carrier u have and business a lil less and up

[pikapoketpu]

moderate turbulence, could get a lot worse

[LOVE2JUICE2]

Seems like a pretty normal flight to me

[thermo1984]

Well from the direction you are going to the Sierras will make it bumpy. You should fly into Denver from the west....totally worse. Or through Canada from East to West, people screamed and I mean screamed lol. Ah well everyones gone through this and felt the same way.

[cady987]

i've been to las vegas this summer, & yeah it was very bumpy & scary, it was horrible, but i'd like to know, why is it that way in Vegas? Cause of the heat?

[maplemanz]

RISING THERMALS=BUMPY

[TheRandomRedSoxGuy]

Boston-L.A. flight in July in the evening had HUGE turbulence going over, Colorado or Utah maybe? It was over the Southwest definitely, more to the east of Las Vegas, though, I'm pretty sure.

[truedanielg]

Great  video. typical turbulent approach into LAS.

[gobears101889]

All across the desert southwest, the ride, especially in the afternoon, can be quite choppy. This is fairly typical, nothing extraordinary by any means. I've been on one into Tucson, AZ that had the whole plane screaming as we were coming over the mountains. That time it was bad.

[truedanielg]

got that right. I live in Tucson and fly to Las Vegas in the summer a lot and that sure is a roller coaster ride

[GGSTop]

These are really light turbulences. Usual in this area: heat + mountains often gives bumps.

[djedenhnjfndsj]

it is becuse those planes are so small and they cant handle it as well as a big one

thats y delta is better

[kellygirl5591]

Most of my flights into Las Vegas are horrendous and I always say I will never fly again!! If you fly in the middle of summer it will be the worst experience!!

Hot air meets cold equals lots of turbulence.

[congaleader2000]

there's no such thing as a smooth arrival into LAS. pretty typical