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AAL1528 American Airlines

Airbus A321 253NXSL · N446AN

· 0:29Quality 3no planelost locknose/tail

3D replay

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
0%
First lockfrom target selected
—
Centring, medianaz / el while locked
—
Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
—
Tightest field of viewhorizontal
3.4°
Time to 8°from first lock
—
Time to tightestfrom first lock
—
Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
2.7 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
1.49°
Largest correctionvision vs prediction
0.00°
Zoom steps
71

Aircraft & route

Flight
AAL1528
Registration
N446AN
Type
Airbus A321 253NXSL
Airline
American Airlines
From
—
To
—
Ground speed
263 kt
Altitude at closest
11,250 ft
Vertical rate
-768 ft/min
Category
A3
ICAO hex
a560f4

Pass geometry

Max elevation
28.9°
Elevation at start → end
28.9° → 18.1°
Azimuth at start → end
134° SE → 142° SE
Closest-approach azimuth
134° SE
Minimum slant range
7.1 km
Heading at closest
159° SSE
Aspect at closest
nose/tail (25°)
Turn
straight (6°)
Departure
No
Zenith pass
No
Dead-zone wrap
No
Duration
0:29 (28.5 s)
Lock
0%

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
14.5 MB · 29.0 s · offset -1.5 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

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