UAL1271 United
Boeing 737-8 · N17272 · SFO → MEX
· 1:11Quality 70side-onDead-zone wrap
Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −57%). 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
- 63%
- First lockfrom target selected
- 5.6 s
- Centring, medianaz / el while locked
- 1.19° / 0.38°
- Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
- 3.59° / 1.19°
- Tightest field of viewhorizontal
- 4.1°
- Time to 8°from first lock
- 28.4 s
- Time to tightestfrom first lock
- 30.6 s
- Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
- 2.3 s
- Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
- 0.00° / 0.00°
- Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
- 0.00° / 0.00°
- Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
- 8.7
- Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
- 2.51°
- Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
- 1.83°
- Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
- 0.99°
- Largest correctionvision vs prediction
- 1.52°
- Zoom steps
- 51
Aircraft & route
- Flight
- UAL1271
- Registration
- N17272
- Type
- Boeing 737-8
- Airline
- United
- From
- SFO · San Francisco
- To
- MEX · Mexico City
- Ground speed
- 289 kt
- Altitude at closest
- 6,200 ft
- Vertical rate
- +2,944 ft/min
- Category
- A3
- ICAO hex
- a12403
Pass geometry
- Max elevation
- 42.0°
- Elevation at start → end
- 34.0° → 16.3°
- Azimuth at start → end
- 315° NW → 204° SSW
- Closest-approach azimuth
- 274° W
- Minimum slant range
- 2.9 km
- Heading at closest
- 190° S
- Aspect at closest
- side-on (84°)
- Turn
- straight (2°)
- Departure
- Yes — climbing out after take-off
- Zenith pass
- No
- Dead-zone wrap
- Yes — pan pre-positioned across the stop
- Duration
- 1:11 (71.4 s)
- Lock
- 63%
Build & tuning
The tracker build that flew this pass and the live settings that mattered, so passes can be compared across changes.
- Build
- 2026-10-14e — feedforward in head axes
- Commit
- 181d1fa+wip
- Node
- v22.22.2
- Camera
- TONGVEO 20x PTZ · 1920×1080 @ 30 fps
- Clip
- 35.4 MB · 71.0 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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