UAL1702 United
Boeing 737-8 · N27292
· 0:41Quality 92side-on
Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −71%). 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
- 87%
- First lockfrom target selected
- 5.9 s
- Centring, medianaz / el while locked
- 0.51° / 0.15°
- Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
- 1.14° / 0.42°
- Tightest field of viewhorizontal
- 4.1°
- Time to 8°from first lock
- 3.1 s
- Time to tightestfrom first lock
- 6.2 s
- Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
- 19.5 s
- Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
- 0.41° / 0.22°
- Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
- 2.20° / 0.97°
- Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
- 0.0
- Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
- 3.71°
- Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
- 1.28°
- Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
- 1.11°
- Largest correctionvision vs prediction
- 0.56°
- Zoom steps
- 22
Aircraft & route
- Flight
- UAL1702
- Registration
- N27292
- Type
- Boeing 737-8
- Airline
- United
- From
- —
- To
- —
- Ground speed
- 300 kt
- Altitude at closest
- 11,250 ft
- Vertical rate
- -832 ft/min
- Category
- A3
- ICAO hex
- a2b198
Pass geometry
- Max elevation
- 33.2°
- Elevation at start → end
- 30.6° → 26.2°
- Azimuth at start → end
- 358° N → 60° ENE
- Closest-approach azimuth
- 21° NNE
- Minimum slant range
- 6.3 km
- Heading at closest
- 113° ESE
- Aspect at closest
- side-on (88°)
- Turn
- straight (0°)
- Departure
- No
- Zenith pass
- No
- Dead-zone wrap
- No
- Duration
- 0:41 (41.4 s)
- Lock
- 87%
Build & tuning
The tracker build that flew this pass and the live settings that mattered, so passes can be compared across changes.
- Build
- 2026-10-13k — centred plane + noisy motion check no longer demotes the zoom
- Commit
- 181d1fa+wip
- Node
- v22.22.2
- Camera
- TONGVEO 20x PTZ · 1920×1080 @ 30 fps
- Clip
- 20.6 MB · 41.0 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