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DAL1412 Delta Air Lines

Airbus A220-300 · N318DU · MSP → SLC

· 0:46Quality 88side-on

3D replay

Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −71%). 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
85%
First lockfrom target selected
4.8 s
Centring, medianaz / el while locked
0.10° / 0.09°
Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
0.32° / 0.25°
Tightest field of viewhorizontal
3.4°
Time to 8°from first lock
2.3 s
Time to tightestfrom first lock
—
Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
39.0 s
Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
0.14° / 0.11°
Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
0.73° / 0.46°
Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
0.0
Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
1.69°
Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
0.56°
Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
0.65°
Largest correctionvision vs prediction
0.83°
Zoom steps
11

Aircraft & route

Flight
DAL1412
Registration
N318DU
Type
Airbus A220-300
Airline
Delta Air Lines
From
MSP · Minneapolis
To
SLC · Salt Lake City
Ground speed
243 kt
Altitude at closest
11,025 ft
Vertical rate
—
Category
A3
ICAO hex
a364e7

Pass geometry

Max elevation
27.8°
Elevation at start → end
27.2° → 22.7°
Azimuth at start → end
5° N → 52° NE
Closest-approach azimuth
18° NNE
Minimum slant range
7.2 km
Heading at closest
112° ESE
Aspect at closest
side-on (86°)
Turn
straight (0°)
Departure
No
Zenith pass
No
Dead-zone wrap
No
Duration
0:46 (46.1 s)
Lock
85%

Build & tuning

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

Build
2026-10-15p — selection hysteresis; auto-cal drops stale bias
Commit
b8aa462
Node
v22.22.2
Camera
TONGVEO 20x PTZ · 1920×1080 @ 30 fps
Clip
22.8 MB · 45.5 s · offset -1.0 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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