Unusual aircraft activity on the Bangalore skies early Saturday
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Unusual aircraft activity on the Bangalore skies early Saturday
Not sure if this has come to your notice. On Friday late night to early Saturday morning, it appeared like there was an increased air activity in our skies. Out of curiosity I checked out what is going on looking on the online tracker and trying to see the aircraft on the apartment terrace. Two aircrafts were looping at very low altitude and start from 12 AM to last till 3 AM. B737 owned by Jet Airways and A320 owned by AirAsia looped continuously in this part of the city and finally landed in the BIAL. Circuits were nonstandard and area of operations spanned around 100 km in this airspace and at low altitude of around 5000 ft AGL.
Was quite puzzled to find this observation as both the aircrafts took off from BAIL and were in circuit and for hours kept on looping. Finally both the aircrafts landed back on BIAL by 3.15 AM
(both the aircrafts landed in the interval of around 45 mins). Possibility of technical issues has to be ruled out as there were two of them looping around simultaneously for hours and there was no much traffic at airport either (I meant air traffic ;o). One other observation was that aircrafts were probably trying to land on HAL airport as we were seeing aircrafts were aligning to HAL airport and there used to be drop in altitude and the ground speed of the aircrafts. Passing past the HAL, aircraft was gaining the altitude and speed.
As said earlier probability of technical issues plaguing both the aircrafts at the same time is too low and to the best of our observations ;o) there was a clear weather conditions. Can this be part of some training activity…we do not know but why the training in the mid night and flying the non-standard trajectories over the residential areas at lower altitudes.
No news about this incident in the social and print media ;o(.
https://www.flightradar24.com/data/a...t-blr/#b84c945
https://www.flightradar24.com/data/a...t-jfl/#b849f22
Was quite puzzled to find this observation as both the aircrafts took off from BAIL and were in circuit and for hours kept on looping. Finally both the aircrafts landed back on BIAL by 3.15 AM
(both the aircrafts landed in the interval of around 45 mins). Possibility of technical issues has to be ruled out as there were two of them looping around simultaneously for hours and there was no much traffic at airport either (I meant air traffic ;o). One other observation was that aircrafts were probably trying to land on HAL airport as we were seeing aircrafts were aligning to HAL airport and there used to be drop in altitude and the ground speed of the aircrafts. Passing past the HAL, aircraft was gaining the altitude and speed.
As said earlier probability of technical issues plaguing both the aircrafts at the same time is too low and to the best of our observations ;o) there was a clear weather conditions. Can this be part of some training activity…we do not know but why the training in the mid night and flying the non-standard trajectories over the residential areas at lower altitudes.
No news about this incident in the social and print media ;o(.
https://www.flightradar24.com/data/a...t-blr/#b84c945
https://www.flightradar24.com/data/a...t-jfl/#b849f22
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Dunno the traffic levels at that airport, but both look like normal base training patterns for new first officers. Back in my time we had to do 12 landings without passengers and usually did them in visual patterns, nowadays i think it has been reduced to only 6 per new pilot. Usually we paired up a few new first officers at a time and they did their landings one after another, all in all it could be a few hours in the pattern with some longer patterns to allow for other traffic.
