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FFT1160 Frontier

Airbus A321-271NX · N630FR · SFO → ?

· 1:35Quality 87side-onturned left 40°Dead-zone wrap

3D replay

Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −68%). Download

Trace

Where the aircraft sat in the frame, second by second. Click the chart to jump the video there.

—FOV —az —el —pose —
Lock

Events

Tracking metrics

How well the camera kept the aircraft centred. Tap a metric for what it means and what good looks like.

Lockshare of the pass
64%
First lockfrom target selected
8.9 s
Centring, medianaz / el while locked
0.50° / 0.31°
Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
2.89° / 0.84°
Tightest field of viewhorizontal
4.1°
Time to 8°from first lock
6.4 s
Time to tightestfrom first lock
8.2 s
Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
16.4 s
Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
0.56° / 0.24°
Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
1.97° / 1.23°
Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
1.2
Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
5.56°
Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
1.99°
Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
1.19°
Largest correctionvision vs prediction
1.09°
Zoom steps
75

Aircraft & route

Flight
FFT1160
Registration
N630FR
Type
Airbus A321-271NX
Airline
Frontier
From
SFO
To
—
Ground speed
309 kt
Altitude at closest
8,775 ft
Vertical rate
+3,136 ft/min
Category
A3
ICAO hex
a83e49

Pass geometry

Max elevation
39.6°
Elevation at start → end
18.0° → 19.4°
Azimuth at start → end
325° NW → 186° S
Closest-approach azimuth
254° WSW
Minimum slant range
4.2 km
Heading at closest
171° S
Aspect at closest
side-on (83°)
Turn
turned left 40°
Departure
Yes — climbing out after take-off
Zenith pass
No
Dead-zone wrap
Yes — pan pre-positioned across the stop
Duration
1:35 (94.7 s)
Lock
64%

Build & tuning

The tracker build that flew this pass and the live settings that mattered, so passes can be compared across changes.

Build
2026-10-12i — focus jumps only to trusted tele points; rate-steered setpoint; bias learned only when still
Commit
68739f5+wip
Node
v22.22.2
Camera
TONGVEO 20x PTZ · 1920×1080 @ 30 fps
Clip
47.2 MB · 95.0 s · offset -1.3 s
pursuit
velocity
maxLeadSec
3
panLatencySec
0.6
tiltLatencySec
0.4
rippleDeg
0.5
rippleTeleDeg
0.25
rateFloorDegPerDps
2.5
rateFloorMaxDeg
12
lockedSigmaDeg
0.35
correctionSlewDps
2.5
kp
1
ki
0.6

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