Yankees take flight with pitcher’s father piloting team charters [Video]

The Schmidt family has helped the New York Yankees take off this year.Sure, pitcher Clarke Schmidt is expected to start Game 3 of the World Series on Monday. But his dad, Dwight Schmidt, has also helped the Yankees get to this point — he’s piloting the team’s family charter flights during the World Series and has been at the controls of the club’s plane for some trips during the season, too.Video above: Dodgers-Yankees World Series preview”Everybody feels like the pilot’s a little bit more personally invested into the flight, so they feel a little safer,” the pitcher joked ahead of his start at Yankee Stadium on Monday night, when New York tries to rebound from a 2-0 Series deficit.Dwight Schmidt, 59, is a retired Marine Corps colonel and Delta Air Lines captain who has worked for the company for 25 years, handling MD-88s, 727s and 757s and 767-400s. He’s twice …