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AFR84E Air France

Boeing 777 328ER · F-GZNS · CDG → SFO

· 1:36Quality 84lost lockside-onturned right 21°

3D replay

Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −73%). 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
84%
First lockfrom target selected
3.6 s
Centring, medianaz / el while locked
0.12° / 0.13°
Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
0.41° / 0.38°
Tightest field of viewhorizontal
3.4°
Time to 8°from first lock
5.4 s
Time to tightestfrom first lock
51.0 s
Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
78.7 s
Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
0.18° / 0.21°
Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
2.14° / 1.38°
Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
0.5
Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
7.53°
Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
1.63°
Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
0.40°
Largest correctionvision vs prediction
1.22°
Zoom steps
34

Aircraft & route

Flight
AFR84E
Registration
F-GZNS
Type
Boeing 777 328ER
Airline
Air France
From
CDG · Paris
To
SFO · San Francisco
Ground speed
297 kt
Altitude at closest
11,375 ft
Vertical rate
-1,152 ft/min
Category
A5
ICAO hex
3965b2

Pass geometry

Max elevation
66.4°
Elevation at start → end
66.4° → 10.8°
Azimuth at start → end
84° E → 146° SSE
Closest-approach azimuth
84° E
Minimum slant range
3.8 km
Heading at closest
140° SE
Aspect at closest
side-on (56°)
Turn
turned right 21°
Departure
No
Zenith pass
No
Dead-zone wrap
No
Duration
1:36 (95.6 s)
Lock
84%

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
46.7 MB · 93.9 s · offset -1.3 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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