UAL2115 United
Airbus A320 232 · N480UA · SFO → ?
· 1:28side-onturned 17°Dead-zone wrap
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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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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
- 61%
- First lockfrom target selected
- 7.0 s
- Centring, medianaz / el while locked
- 0.99° / 0.24°
- Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
- 4.97° / 2.22°
- Tightest field of viewhorizontal
- 4.1°
- Time to 8°from first lock
- 4.0 s
- Time to tightestfrom first lock
- 44.0 s
- Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
- 6.5 s
- Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
- 0.90° / 0.14°
- Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
- 2.20° / 0.35°
- Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
- 0.0
- Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
- 2.90°
- Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
- 3.00°
- Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
- 1.35°
- Largest correctionvision vs prediction
- 2.05°
- Zoom steps
- 68
Aircraft & route
- Flight
- UAL2115
- Registration
- N480UA
- Type
- Airbus A320 232
- Airline
- United
- From
- SFO
- To
- —
- Ground speed
- 291 kt
- Altitude at closest
- 7,700 ft
- Vertical rate
- +4,032 ft/min
- Category
- A3
- ICAO hex
- a5ea5c
Pass geometry
- Max elevation
- 46.9°
- Elevation at start → end
- 19.5° → 19.5°
- Azimuth at start → end
- 341° NNW → 204° SSW
- Closest-approach azimuth
- 269° W
- Minimum slant range
- 3.2 km
- Heading at closest
- 186° S
- Aspect at closest
- side-on (83°)
- Turn
- turned 17°
- Departure
- Yes — climbing out after take-off
- Zenith pass
- No
- Dead-zone wrap
- Yes — pan pre-positioned across the stop
- Duration
- 1:28 (87.8 s)
- Lock
- 61%
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
- 44.0 MB · 88.0 s · offset -1.5 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