AAL2275 American Airlines
Airbus A321 253NXSL · N405AN · SFO → ?
· 2:27Quality 76lost lockside-onDead-zone wrap
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
- 63%
- First lockfrom target selected
- 31.5 s
- Centring, medianaz / el while locked
- 0.10° / 0.13°
- Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
- 0.74° / 0.31°
- Tightest field of viewhorizontal
- 3.4°
- Time to 8°from first lock
- 2.3 s
- Time to tightestfrom first lock
- 91.4 s
- Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
- 86.8 s
- Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
- 0.34° / 0.18°
- Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
- 2.83° / 0.95°
- Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
- 0.5
- Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
- 18.74°
- Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
- 2.32°
- Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
- 0.76°
- Largest correctionvision vs prediction
- 0.35°
- Zoom steps
- 88
Aircraft & route
- Flight
- AAL2275
- Registration
- N405AN
- Type
- Airbus A321 253NXSL
- Airline
- American Airlines
- From
- SFO
- To
- —
- Ground speed
- 359 kt
- Altitude at closest
- 11,800 ft
- Vertical rate
- +1,024 ft/min
- Category
- A3
- ICAO hex
- a4bf41
Pass geometry
- Max elevation
- 32.5°
- Elevation at start → end
- 15.4° → 14.6°
- Azimuth at start → end
- 284° WNW → 152° SSE
- Closest-approach azimuth
- 220° SW
- Minimum slant range
- 6.7 km
- Heading at closest
- 133° SE
- Aspect at closest
- side-on (88°)
- Turn
- straight (7°)
- Departure
- Yes — climbing out after take-off
- Zenith pass
- No
- Dead-zone wrap
- Yes — pan pre-positioned across the stop
- Duration
- 2:27 (146.7 s)
- Lock
- 63%
Build & tuning
The tracker build that flew this pass and the live settings that mattered, so passes can be compared across changes.
- Build
- 2026-10-15q — drive speed latched at the lens position; measured speed bytes only; auto-cal keeps gains
- Commit
- 44f2d6a
- Node
- v22.22.2
- Camera
- TONGVEO 20x PTZ · 1920×1080 @ 30 fps
- Clip
- 73.0 MB · 146.0 s · offset -0.8 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
- -0.11
- 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