UAL990 United
Boeing 777 222ER · N229UA · SFO → CDG
· 1:07Quality 73nose/tailOverhead
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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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
- 53%
- First lockfrom target selected
- 5.8 s
- Centring, medianaz / el while locked
- 0.59° / 0.43°
- Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
- 7.17° / 7.43°
- Tightest field of viewhorizontal
- 6.6°
- Time to 8°from first lock
- 54.8 s
- Time to tightestfrom first lock
- 55.7 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
- 1.04°
- Largest correctionvision vs prediction
- 1.65°
- Zoom steps
- 39
Aircraft & route
- Flight
- UAL990
- Registration
- N229UA
- Type
- Boeing 777 222ER (B772)
- Airline
- United
- From
- SFO · San Francisco
- To
- CDG · Paris
- Ground speed
- 171 kt
- Altitude at closest
- 1,325 ft
- Vertical rate
- +1,792 ft/min
- Category
- A5
- ICAO hex
- a20433
Pass geometry
- Max elevation
- 80.7°
- Elevation at start → end
- 0.4° → 13.6°
- Azimuth at start → end
- 116° ESE → 299° WNW
- Closest-approach azimuth
- 15° NNE
- Minimum slant range
- 419 m
- Heading at closest
- 298° WNW
- Aspect at closest
- nose/tail (9°)
- Turn
- straight (0°)
- Departure
- Yes — climbing out after take-off
- Zenith pass
- Yes — camera flipped over the top
- Dead-zone wrap
- No
- Duration
- 1:07 (67.0 s)
- Lock
- 53%
Build & tuning
The tracker build that flew this pass and the live settings that mattered, so passes can be compared across changes.
- Build
- 2026-10-13h — no zoom-focus direct while the lens is still zooming (wedge race)
- Commit
- 181d1fa+wip
- Node
- v22.22.2
- Camera
- TONGVEO 20x PTZ · 1920×1080 @ 30 fps
- Clip
- 33.5 MB · 67.0 s · offset -1.1 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
This clip and poster are © Skylight (Cameron Paczek): free for non-commercial use with credit to skylightceiling.com, not MIT. License