UAL852 United
Boeing 777 224ER · N74007
· 0:50Quality 75side-on
Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −64%). Download
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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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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
- 76%
- First lockfrom target selected
- 6.7 s
- Centring, medianaz / el while locked
- 1.16° / 0.61°
- Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
- 3.24° / 1.41°
- Tightest field of viewhorizontal
- 6.8°
- Time to 8°from first lock
- 6.6 s
- Time to tightestfrom first lock
- 6.6 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
- 1.52°
- Largest correctionvision vs prediction
- 1.07°
- Zoom steps
- 23
Aircraft & route
- Flight
- UAL852
- Registration
- N74007
- Type
- Boeing 777 224ER
- Airline
- United
- From
- —
- To
- —
- Ground speed
- 307 kt
- Altitude at closest
- 11,125 ft
- Vertical rate
- 0 ft/min
- Category
- A5
- ICAO hex
- a9f502
Pass geometry
- Max elevation
- 69.5°
- Elevation at start → end
- 40.8° → 38.8°
- Azimuth at start → end
- 339° NNW → 123° ESE
- Closest-approach azimuth
- 49° NE
- Minimum slant range
- 3.6 km
- Heading at closest
- 140° SE
- Aspect at closest
- side-on (89°)
- Turn
- straight (0°)
- Departure
- No
- Zenith pass
- No
- Dead-zone wrap
- No
- Duration
- 0:50 (50.2 s)
- Lock
- 76%
Build & tuning
The tracker build that flew this pass and the live settings that mattered, so passes can be compared across changes.
- Build
- 2026-10-13e — revert framing sigma hold
- Commit
- 181d1fa+wip
- Node
- v22.22.2
- Camera
- TONGVEO 20x PTZ · 1920×1080 @ 30 fps
- Clip
- 25.0 MB · 50.0 s · offset -1.5 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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