UAL44 United
Boeing 787-9 · N81105 · SFO → ZRH
· 0:38Quality 68side-on
Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −69%). 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
- 80%
- First lockfrom target selected
- 5.1 s
- Centring, medianaz / el while locked
- 0.73° / 1.83°
- Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
- 6.94° / 6.21°
- Tightest field of viewhorizontal
- 6.6°
- Time to 8°from first lock
- 31.8 s
- Time to tightestfrom first lock
- 32.1 s
- Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
- 0.0 s
- Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
- —
- Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
- —
- Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
- —
- Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
- —
- Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
- —
- Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
- 4.96°
- Largest correctionvision vs prediction
- 1.34°
- Zoom steps
- 35
Aircraft & route
- Flight
- UAL44
- Registration
- N81105
- Type
- Boeing 787-9
- Airline
- United
- From
- SFO · San Francisco
- To
- ZRH · Zurich
- Ground speed
- 179 kt
- Altitude at closest
- 1,200 ft
- Vertical rate
- —
- Category
- A5
- ICAO hex
- ab0f89
Pass geometry
- Max elevation
- 73.1°
- Elevation at start → end
- 15.0° → 13.3°
- Azimuth at start → end
- 111° ESE → 299° WNW
- Closest-approach azimuth
- 17° NNE
- Minimum slant range
- 371 m
- Heading at closest
- 298° WNW
- Aspect at closest
- side-on (79°)
- Turn
- straight (0°)
- Departure
- Yes — climbing out after take-off
- Zenith pass
- No
- Dead-zone wrap
- No
- Duration
- 0:38 (38.2 s)
- Lock
- 80%
Build & tuning
The tracker build that flew this pass and the live settings that mattered, so passes can be compared across changes.
- Build
- 2026-10-14n — vision skyline mask 31x cheaper (loop back to ~15 Hz)
- Commit
- af2a83e
- Node
- v22.22.2
- Camera
- TONGVEO 20x PTZ · 1920×1080 @ 30 fps
- Clip
- 19.0 MB · 38.0 s · offset -1.2 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
- -0.16
- 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