UAL2649 United
Airbus A319 131 · N822UA · SFO → ?
· 1:15Quality 78side-onDead-zone wrap
Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −61%). 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
- 5.4 s
- Centring, medianaz / el while locked
- 0.87° / 0.70°
- Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
- 4.43° / 4.30°
- Tightest field of viewhorizontal
- 3.4°
- Time to 8°from first lock
- 9.9 s
- Time to tightestfrom first lock
- 67.6 s
- Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
- 7.7 s
- Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
- 0.08° / 0.16°
- Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
- 0.28° / 0.57°
- Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
- 1.3
- Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
- 1.58°
- Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
- 1.41°
- Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
- 2.02°
- Largest correctionvision vs prediction
- 2.54°
- Zoom steps
- 50
Aircraft & route
- Flight
- UAL2649
- Registration
- N822UA
- Type
- Airbus A319 131
- Airline
- United
- From
- SFO
- To
- —
- Ground speed
- 292 kt
- Altitude at closest
- 6,675 ft
- Vertical rate
- +3,712 ft/min
- Category
- A3
- ICAO hex
- ab3a0c
Pass geometry
- Max elevation
- 65.7°
- Elevation at start → end
- 19.9° → 24.0°
- Azimuth at start → end
- 2° N → 202° SSW
- Closest-approach azimuth
- 280° W
- Minimum slant range
- 2.2 km
- Heading at closest
- 194° SSW
- Aspect at closest
- side-on (86°)
- Turn
- straight (2°)
- Departure
- Yes — climbing out after take-off
- Zenith pass
- No
- Dead-zone wrap
- Yes — pan pre-positioned across the stop
- Duration
- 1:15 (74.9 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
- 2026-10-14b — steady overhead park, zoom travel guard
- Commit
- 181d1fa+wip
- Node
- v22.22.2
- Camera
- TONGVEO 20x PTZ · 1920×1080 @ 30 fps
- Clip
- 37.5 MB · 75.0 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
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