r/FlightRadar24India

Notices early morning go arounds and holding patterns at Mumbai airport due to heavy rains.

The same aircraft that woke up Mumbai at 4:15 AM last week!

Hi, this is my first post here. Sorry if I miss anything important.

Just found something weird here. Is it normal for a flight to circle mid-flight nowhere near the source and destination airports.

Just saw two back to back go arounds at Navi Mumbai Airport...

edit: 4 flights are holding near the airport waiting to land.. what could be the reason?

My house sits right under one of the approach paths into Delhi, so all day I see flights coming in low, passing almost exactly over my head. I’d always wondered what they were, where they were coming from, where they were headed. Flightradar scratched that itch for a while, but having to pull out my phone and open an app every single time got old fast.

So I built my own thing.

It’s an ESP32 with a 0.96 inch display. The ESP32 knows my lat/long, polls a few APIs to pull live flight data, and shows whatever is flying nearby right on the screen. No app, no phone, just a little device sitting there that always knows what’s overhead. The response is surprisingly accurate, it lines up well with what I actually see in the sky.

Total cost came to under ₹800, which honestly still surprises me.

Next on the list is swapping in a bigger screen so I can fit more detail per flight (altitude, route, maybe a tiny map).

Happy to do a full walkthrough of how I put it together if people are interested. Let me know.

Edit 1 --

https://github.com/pranshuagrawal/esp32-flight-tracker
I have made the source code live here with a very detailed readme.md

Edit 2 --
Few Updates

• When there is not flights the display converts to a clock with date.
• It now announces the incoming flight on my mac. Mac is a running a small python script which listens and esp32 sends a command with a statement to be announced.
• Added a button to toggle this announcement.
• Led indicator and 1s active buzzer which turns on whenever there is a flight in the defined radius.

Got this coool videooo

Any Idea why it would be here?

Ive mever seen a go around in ahmedabad unless its some spicejet aircraft practicing or something

I was heading out of my home without my phone saw an aircraft going left to right which i never see as i see right to left easily as the path is used for northbound aircrafts taking off(you can see my location for reference)
I immediately rushed back in my home to see what the fuck this aircraft was doing
Never felt more nerdy than this😭

The weather at BLR looks fine.

Same as title