UAL1577 United
Boeing 737 MAX 9 · N17436 · SFO → ?
· 0:49side-onDead-zone wrap
Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −27%). 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
- 69%
- First lockfrom target selected
- 6.2 s
- Centring, medianaz / el while locked
- 1.47° / 0.19°
- Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
- 7.55° / 0.82°
- Tightest field of viewhorizontal
- 3.4°
- Time to 8°from first lock
- 4.7 s
- Time to tightestfrom first lock
- 38.6 s
- Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
- 5.1 s
- Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
- 0.48° / 0.16°
- Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
- 1.57° / 0.58°
- Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
- 0.0
- Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
- 1.60°
- Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
- 0.97°
- Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
- 1.05°
- Largest correctionvision vs prediction
- 1.87°
- Zoom steps
- 48
Aircraft & route
- Flight
- UAL1577
- Registration
- N17436
- Type
- Boeing 737 MAX 9
- Airline
- United
- From
- SFO
- To
- —
- Ground speed
- 295 kt
- Altitude at closest
- 7,825 ft
- Vertical rate
- +2,816 ft/min
- Category
- A3
- ICAO hex
- a12ae9
Pass geometry
- Max elevation
- 36.3°
- Elevation at start → end
- 36.3° → 18.5°
- Azimuth at start → end
- 255° WSW → 207° SSW
- Closest-approach azimuth
- 255° WSW
- Minimum slant range
- 4.1 km
- Heading at closest
- 185° S
- Aspect at closest
- side-on (70°)
- Turn
- straight (7°)
- Departure
- Yes — climbing out after take-off
- Zenith pass
- No
- Dead-zone wrap
- Yes — pan pre-positioned across the stop
- Duration
- 0:49 (48.7 s)
- Lock
- 69%
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
- 24.0 MB · 48.0 s · offset -0.9 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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