Delta 737-900ER Takeoff from Salt Lake City in Dense Fog

Late night departure from Salt Lake on a very foggy winter night, off on a routine hop up to Seattle aboard one of the handful of Delta's later-build 737-900ERs that were delivered without Split Scimitar winglets.
Because Salt Lake City and the surrounding area is situated in a relatively narrow valley with tall mountain ranges on both sides, it often creates an inversion effect in the atmosphere during the winter, where cooler air gets trapped in the valley by warmer air above the mountains. Dense fog-and with it, pollution-often accumulates as a result. While it isn't great for the air quality, the fog did create a really cool, sort of eerie effect for this video.
After pushing back from the gate, we taxied around the new terminal buildings and out to the deice pad off the end of Runway 34L. After a quick deicing, we taxied out to the end of the runway, paused briefly for an aircraft departing ahead of us, and then lined up for takeoff. Presumably because of potential icing, the spool up to takeoff thrust was drawn out really long-I counted about 15 seconds from idle to takeoff thrust. After takeoff, we immediately turned left to head West for a few miles, before turning to the Northwest in the direction of our destination.
Check out the landing in SeaTac here: • Delta 737-900ER Landin... .
Date: December 6, 2019
Airline: Delta Air Lines (DAL/DL)
Flight: DL2702
Departure: Salt Lake City Int'l Airport (KSLC/SLC)
Arrival: Seattle-Tacoma Int'l Airport (KSEA/SEA)
Aircraft: Boeing 737-900ER
Registration: N901DN
Seat: 10A (Comfort+)
Camera: iPhone 11 Pro Max

[@Worldofourown2024]

Start at 12:50 for take off. I love the sound of the engine kicking into high gear and reaching around 180 mph lifting off quickly powering high up into the sky like nobodies business. Jet travel is so fascinating, fun, and adventurous though taxi-ing is boring and people tire of being on the jet after a day of it. Doing it too much would be unpleasant. When I'd make a 10,000 mile jump in a day, I would be so tired of it, but enduring a 24 or 36 hour duration of flight and layovers in airports is so well worth the places you can experience and what you come to know and understand. One fellow American seat mate once said to me, "There's the occasional flyer club, then frequent flyer club, and the divorced flyer club." I told him I was only an occasional flyer, but hoped to get a job involving travel for I don't have kids and want to live fast, earn good money, and have a great experience living life. He just about vomited in his salad he brought to eat on board when I told him this. He was a frequent business traveler who'd probably lost familial relations over flying too much for his career. Even if I were financially well off and completely independent with no need to work, I still wouldn't do it too much where I'd stay in Europe and Asia for up to 6 months at a time only making brief stints home in the US mainly for shopping and checking out how my home country is changing. I was in the military and then an ESL English teacher in another country spending 10 years of my adult life so far outside the US only returning once a year for a month or so, but have been back for five years now hoping to score a job and start a new career in the US which is very tricky even this supposedly great again economy. I want a solid full time opportunity where I can then afford to do anything during two week a year vacation assuming it's possible to get. I was enjoying 4 to 6 weeks a year off teaching in South Korea as well a whole 4 weeks while in the military too which I used to see almost the entire world. The travel bug is biting me hard again and I can't wait to do it all over again one day...

[@TheFejfAviation]

Super cool!

[@thomassheriff217]

And that's a good night from me :)

[@southwest0092]

Nice video

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