UAL115 United
Boeing 787 9 · N26967 · SFO → PPT
· 0:37Quality 77nose/tail
Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −75%). 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
- 76%
- First lockfrom target selected
- 3.8 s
- Centring, medianaz / el while locked
- 0.78° / 0.66°
- Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
- 5.44° / 7.17°
- Tightest field of viewhorizontal
- 5.0°
- Time to 8°from first lock
- 30.6 s
- Time to tightestfrom first lock
- —
- Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
- 0.2 s
- Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
- —
- Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
- —
- Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
- 0.0
- Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
- —
- Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
- —
- Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
- 1.45°
- Largest correctionvision vs prediction
- 2.19°
- Zoom steps
- 26
Aircraft & route
- Flight
- UAL115
- Registration
- N26967
- Type
- Boeing 787 9
- Airline
- United
- From
- SFO · San Francisco
- To
- PPT · Papeete
- Ground speed
- 185 kt
- Altitude at closest
- 1,025 ft
- Vertical rate
- —
- Category
- A5
- ICAO hex
- a2a3b6
Pass geometry
- Max elevation
- 82.3°
- Elevation at start → end
- 17.3° → 12.9°
- Azimuth at start → end
- 115° ESE → 299° WNW
- Closest-approach azimuth
- 44° NE
- Minimum slant range
- 313 m
- Heading at closest
- 298° WNW
- Aspect at closest
- nose/tail (4°)
- Turn
- straight (0°)
- Departure
- Yes — climbing out after take-off
- Zenith pass
- No
- Dead-zone wrap
- No
- Duration
- 0:37 (36.6 s)
- Lock
- 76%
Build & tuning
The tracker build that flew this pass and the live settings that mattered, so passes can be compared across changes.
- Build
- 2026-10-14g — vision expected spot at frame time, departure pre-zoom, focus from profile, damped lead learner
- Commit
- 181d1fa+wip
- Node
- v22.22.2
- Camera
- TONGVEO 20x PTZ · 1920×1080 @ 30 fps
- Clip
- 18.5 MB · 37.0 s · offset -1.7 s
- pursuit
- velocity
- maxLeadSec
- 3
- panLatencySec
- 0.6
- tiltLatencySec
- 0.4
- rippleDeg
- 0.5
- rippleTeleDeg
- 0.25
- maxSpeedStepFwps
- 0.45
- speedReachFrac
- 0.8
- 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