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DAL1715 Delta Air Lines

Boeing 737NG 832/W · N3736C · SFO → ?

· 0:23Quality 58nose/tailturned left 40°

3D replay

Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −80%). 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
40%
First lockfrom target selected
9.2 s
Centring, medianaz / el while locked
0.10° / 0.13°
Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
0.40° / 0.34°
Tightest field of viewhorizontal
3.8°
Time to 8°from first lock
4.1 s
Time to tightestfrom first lock
10.1 s
Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
5.4 s
Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
0.15° / 0.18°
Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
0.37° / 0.46°
Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
0.0
Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
1.41°
Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
0.85°
Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
0.39°
Largest correctionvision vs prediction
0.55°
Zoom steps
24

Aircraft & route

Flight
DAL1715
Registration
N3736C
Type
Boeing 737NG 832/W
Airline
Delta Air Lines
From
SFO
To
—
Ground speed
303 kt
Altitude at closest
9,675 ft
Vertical rate
+2,560 ft/min
Category
A3
ICAO hex
a4421d

Pass geometry

Max elevation
13.8°
Elevation at start → end
13.8° → 12.3°
Azimuth at start → end
202° SSW → 192° SSW
Closest-approach azimuth
202° SSW
Minimum slant range
12.5 km
Heading at closest
182° S
Aspect at closest
nose/tail (20°)
Turn
turned left 40°
Departure
Yes — climbing out after take-off
Zenith pass
No
Dead-zone wrap
No
Duration
0:23 (22.6 s)
Lock
40%

Build & tuning

The tracker build that flew this pass and the live settings that mattered, so passes can be compared across changes.

Build
2026-10-14i — zoom sigma grows after lock loss (0.1°/s)
Commit
181d1fa+wip
Node
v22.22.2
Camera
TONGVEO 20x PTZ · 1920×1080 @ 30 fps
Clip
11.0 MB · 22.0 s · offset -0.8 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
sigmaGrowthDps
0.1
aimLeadSec
0.59
correctionSlewDps
2.5
kp
1
ki
0.6

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