UAL1799 United
Boeing 737NG 924ER/W · N38417 · SFO → ?
· 2:01Quality 82side-onturned 32°Dead-zone wrap
Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −62%). 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
- 70%
- First lockfrom target selected
- 6.3 s
- Centring, medianaz / el while locked
- 0.35° / 0.18°
- Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
- 2.81° / 0.53°
- Tightest field of viewhorizontal
- 3.4°
- Time to 8°from first lock
- 3.5 s
- Time to tightestfrom first lock
- 85.0 s
- Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
- 72.0 s
- Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
- 0.49° / 0.27°
- Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
- 4.15° / 1.42°
- Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
- 0.6
- Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
- 8.67°
- Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
- 3.58°
- Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
- 0.78°
- Largest correctionvision vs prediction
- 0.97°
- Zoom steps
- 51
Aircraft & route
- Flight
- UAL1799
- Registration
- N38417
- Type
- Boeing 737NG 924ER/W
- Airline
- United
- From
- SFO
- To
- —
- Ground speed
- 288 kt
- Altitude at closest
- 7,700 ft
- Vertical rate
- +3,328 ft/min
- Category
- A3
- ICAO hex
- a46cc1
Pass geometry
- Max elevation
- 43.2°
- Elevation at start → end
- 18.9° → 13.6°
- Azimuth at start → end
- 334° NNW → 199° SSW
- Closest-approach azimuth
- 265° W
- Minimum slant range
- 3.4 km
- Heading at closest
- 183° S
- Aspect at closest
- side-on (82°)
- Turn
- turned 32°
- Departure
- Yes — climbing out after take-off
- Zenith pass
- No
- Dead-zone wrap
- Yes — pan pre-positioned across the stop
- Duration
- 2:01 (120.7 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
- 2026-10-14n — 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
- 60.5 MB · 121.0 s · offset -1.6 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