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ITY640 ITA Airways

Airbus Industrie A330-941 · EI-HJR · FCO → SFO

· 1:44side-onturned right 19°

3D replay

Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −65%). Download

Trace

Where the aircraft sat in the frame, second by second. Click the chart to jump the video there.

—FOV —az —el —pose —
Lock

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
70%
First lockfrom target selected
4.6 s
Centring, medianaz / el while locked
0.29° / 0.17°
Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
1.97° / 0.63°
Tightest field of viewhorizontal
3.4°
Time to 8°from first lock
7.6 s
Time to tightestfrom first lock
76.4 s
Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
38.1 s
Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
0.42° / 0.19°
Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
2.60° / 1.06°
Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
1.1
Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
5.47°
Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
1.56°
Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
0.57°
Largest correctionvision vs prediction
1.59°
Zoom steps
67

Aircraft & route

Flight
ITY640
Registration
EI-HJR
Type
Airbus Industrie A330-941
Airline
ITA Airways
From
FCO · Rome
To
SFO · San Francisco
Ground speed
276 kt
Altitude at closest
11,350 ft
Vertical rate
0 ft/min
Category
A5
ICAO hex
4cadc9

Pass geometry

Max elevation
69.9°
Elevation at start → end
53.6° → 12.7°
Azimuth at start → end
350° N → 143° SE
Closest-approach azimuth
51° NE
Minimum slant range
3.7 km
Heading at closest
140° SE
Aspect at closest
side-on (89°)
Turn
turned right 19°
Departure
No
Zenith pass
No
Dead-zone wrap
No
Duration
1:44 (104.0 s)
Lock
70%

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
52.0 MB · 104.0 s · offset -1.4 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

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