UAL817 United
Airbus A320 232 · N449UA · SFO → ?
· 0:17Quality 64lost lockwrap pinnednose/tailDead-zone wrap
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
- 1%
- First lockfrom target selected
- 16.6 s
- Centring, medianaz / el while locked
- 0.40° / 0.34°
- Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
- 0.40° / 0.34°
- Tightest field of viewhorizontal
- 8.3°
- Time to 8°from first lock
- —
- Time to tightestfrom first lock
- —
- 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
- 257.15°
- Largest correctionvision vs prediction
- 0.00°
- Zoom steps
- 17
Aircraft & route
- Flight
- UAL817
- Registration
- N449UA
- Type
- Airbus A320 232
- Airline
- United
- From
- SFO
- To
- —
- Ground speed
- 298 kt
- Altitude at closest
- 8,425 ft
- Vertical rate
- +2,688 ft/min
- Category
- A3
- ICAO hex
- a56dcf
Pass geometry
- Max elevation
- 19.4°
- Elevation at start → end
- 19.4° → 16.2°
- Azimuth at start → end
- 214° SSW → 207° SSW
- Closest-approach azimuth
- 214° SSW
- Minimum slant range
- 7.8 km
- Heading at closest
- 188° S
- Aspect at closest
- nose/tail (26°)
- Turn
- straight (0°)
- Departure
- Yes — climbing out after take-off
- Zenith pass
- No
- Dead-zone wrap
- Yes — pan pre-positioned across the stop
- Duration
- 0:17 (16.7 s)
- Lock
- 1%
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
- 8.5 MB · 17.0 s · offset -1.2 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