UAL1457 United
Boeing 737NG 824/W · N78501 · SFO → ?
· 0:55Quality 57lost lockside-onturned left 81°Overhead
Trace
Where the aircraft sat in the frame, second by second. Click the chart to jump the video there.
—FOV —az —el —pose —
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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
- 25%
- First lockfrom target selected
- 21.6 s
- Centring, medianaz / el while locked
- 0.94° / 0.90°
- Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
- 1.95° / 1.67°
- Tightest field of viewhorizontal
- 5.8°
- Time to 8°from first lock
- 10.9 s
- Time to tightestfrom first lock
- 11.3 s
- Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
- 0.0 s
- Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
- —
- Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
- —
- Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
- —
- Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
- —
- Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
- —
- Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
- 1.14°
- Largest correctionvision vs prediction
- 1.53°
- Zoom steps
- 86
Aircraft & route
- Flight
- UAL1457
- Registration
- N78501
- Type
- Boeing 737NG 824/W
- Airline
- United
- From
- SFO
- To
- —
- Ground speed
- 334 kt
- Altitude at closest
- 10,525 ft
- Vertical rate
- +2,176 ft/min
- Category
- A3
- ICAO hex
- aaa58b
Pass geometry
- Max elevation
- 66.1°
- Elevation at start → end
- 19.1° → 64.6°
- Azimuth at start → end
- 342° NNW → 205° SSW
- Closest-approach azimuth
- 232° SW
- Minimum slant range
- 3.5 km
- Heading at closest
- 143° SE
- Aspect at closest
- side-on (89°)
- Turn
- turned left 81°
- Departure
- Yes — climbing out after take-off
- Zenith pass
- Yes — camera flipped over the top
- Dead-zone wrap
- No
- Duration
- 0:55 (55.0 s)
- Lock
- 25%
Build & tuning
The tracker build that flew this pass and the live settings that mattered, so passes can be compared across changes.
- Build
- 2026-10-13b — vision pauses during zoom transit
- Commit
- 181d1fa+wip
- Node
- v22.22.2
- Camera
- TONGVEO 20x PTZ · 1920×1080 @ 30 fps
- Clip
- 27.5 MB · 55.0 s · offset -0.9 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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