LOS ANGELES — The Schmidt family has helped the Yankees take off this year.

Sure, pitcher Clarke Schmidt was scheduled to start Game 3 of the World Series on Monday, which ended too late for this edition. 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.

“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 the Yankees tried 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 piloted the Yankees on road trips, including ahead of 2021’s Field of Dreams game in Iowa. Unfortunately, Clarke was optioned to Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre the day before that game.

“Growing up, we used to have the printout of what it was like in a cockpit in my room. So we knew all the buttons and stuff. I didn’t really know what it was. We were just messing around,” Clarke said. “I’ve flown with him a few times in smaller planes and stuff like that. And he’s tried to kind of bestow his knowledge on me, but I was always baseball first.”

Dwight Schmidt arranged for Yankees manager Aaron Boone to use a Delta flight simulator during a visit to Atlanta. A landing at New York’s LaGuardia Airport was programmed.

“It was really cool. Mr. Schmidt said I did a good job,” Boone recalled. “I was in there for probably 10, 15 minutes flying and then landing the plane and everything.

“It was something I was pretty fortunate to get a chance to do.”

Clarke Schmidt, a 28-year-old right-hander, was 5-5 with a 2.85 ERA in 16 starts during the regular season and had a 3.86 ERA in a pair of postseason starts, no-decisions in Game 3s against the Royals and Guardians.

Dwight and wife Renee were at Dodger Stadium for the Series, though Clarke wasn’t scheduled to pitch.

When the Yankees’ World Series family charter took off from Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey, Dwight had Delta collectors cards ready for the kids. He landed the 757 at Hollywood Burbank Airport, the families deplaned and Schmidt flew the aircraft 18 miles to Los Angeles International Airport.

“I’ve heard a lot of really good things about the landing this time,” Clarke said. “Everyone said it’s the best flight they’ve ever been on, and they felt no turbulence.”

Much of the time, Dwight Schmidt is on long-haul routes to Europe and South America. The Yankees charters are a special route.

“We bid for those, to try and get a trip,” Schmidt said.

“That’s how I was able to get it.”