AAL1837 American Airlines
Airbus A321 231SL · N905AU · SFO → ?
· 0:38Quality 81side-on
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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
- 77%
- First lockfrom target selected
- 9.3 s
- Centring, medianaz / el while locked
- 0.77° / 0.19°
- Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
- 1.51° / 0.58°
- Tightest field of viewhorizontal
- 5.0°
- Time to 8°from first lock
- 5.5 s
- Time to tightestfrom first lock
- 6.3 s
- Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
- 0.8 s
- Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
- —
- Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
- —
- Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
- 0.0
- Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
- —
- Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
- —
- Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
- 1.62°
- Largest correctionvision vs prediction
- 0.59°
- Zoom steps
- 32
Aircraft & route
- Flight
- AAL1837
- Registration
- N905AU
- Type
- Airbus A321 231SL
- Airline
- American Airlines
- From
- SFO
- To
- —
- Ground speed
- 297 kt
- Altitude at closest
- 7,100 ft
- Vertical rate
- +2,944 ft/min
- Category
- A3
- ICAO hex
- ac81d2
Pass geometry
- Max elevation
- 31.4°
- Elevation at start → end
- 17.8° → 30.5°
- Azimuth at start → end
- 322° NW → 249° WSW
- Closest-approach azimuth
- 262° W
- Minimum slant range
- 4.1 km
- Heading at closest
- 184° S
- Aspect at closest
- side-on (79°)
- Turn
- straight (13°)
- Departure
- Yes — climbing out after take-off
- Zenith pass
- No
- Dead-zone wrap
- No
- Duration
- 0:38 (37.6 s)
- Lock
- 77%
Build & tuning
The tracker build that flew this pass and the live settings that mattered, so passes can be compared across changes.
- Build
- 2026-10-13i — slower zoom ladder (one rung, 1.5 s)
- Commit
- 181d1fa+wip
- Node
- v22.22.2
- Camera
- TONGVEO 20x PTZ · 1920×1080 @ 30 fps
- Clip
- 19.0 MB · 38.0 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
This clip and poster are © Skylight (Cameron Paczek): free for non-commercial use with credit to skylightceiling.com, not MIT. License