ASA740 Alaska
Boeing 737-8 · N806AK · SFO → LAS
· 1:25Quality 90side-onDead-zone wrap
Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −66%). Download
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Where the aircraft sat in the frame, second by second. Click the chart to jump the video there.
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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
- 71%
- First lockfrom target selected
- 6.9 s
- Centring, medianaz / el while locked
- 0.56° / 0.24°
- Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
- 2.26° / 0.58°
- Tightest field of viewhorizontal
- 5.0°
- Time to 8°from first lock
- 6.1 s
- Time to tightestfrom first lock
- 7.3 s
- Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
- 12.0 s
- Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
- 0.79° / 0.26°
- Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
- 2.92° / 0.99°
- Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
- 0.0
- Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
- 5.31°
- Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
- 2.70°
- Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
- 1.54°
- Largest correctionvision vs prediction
- 0.77°
- Zoom steps
- 45
Aircraft & route
- Flight
- ASA740
- Registration
- N806AK
- Type
- Boeing 737-8
- Airline
- Alaska
- From
- SFO · San Francisco
- To
- LAS · Las Vegas
- Ground speed
- 295 kt
- Altitude at closest
- 7,375 ft
- Vertical rate
- +3,264 ft/min
- Category
- A3
- ICAO hex
- aaf831
Pass geometry
- Max elevation
- 34.2°
- Elevation at start → end
- 18.3° → 18.1°
- Azimuth at start → end
- 326° NNW → 208° SSW
- Closest-approach azimuth
- 266° W
- Minimum slant range
- 4.0 km
- Heading at closest
- 184° S
- Aspect at closest
- side-on (81°)
- Turn
- straight (11°)
- Departure
- Yes — climbing out after take-off
- Zenith pass
- No
- Dead-zone wrap
- Yes — pan pre-positioned across the stop
- Duration
- 1:25 (84.9 s)
- Lock
- 71%
Build & tuning
The tracker build that flew this pass and the live settings that mattered, so passes can be compared across changes.
- Build
- 2026-10-14b — steady overhead park, zoom travel guard
- Commit
- 181d1fa+wip
- Node
- v22.22.2
- Camera
- TONGVEO 20x PTZ · 1920×1080 @ 30 fps
- Clip
- 42.0 MB · 84.0 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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