UAL1597 United
Boeing 737NG 824/W · N24224 · SFO → ?
· 1:23Quality 84lost lockside-on
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
- 91%
- First lockfrom target selected
- 5.9 s
- Centring, medianaz / el while locked
- 0.12° / 0.10°
- Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
- 0.48° / 0.26°
- Tightest field of viewhorizontal
- 3.6°
- Time to 8°from first lock
- 0.0 s
- Time to tightestfrom first lock
- —
- Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
- 74.9 s
- Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
- 0.24° / 0.17°
- Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
- 2.55° / 1.28°
- Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
- 0.4
- Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
- 9.54°
- Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
- 1.69°
- Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
- 0.85°
- Largest correctionvision vs prediction
- 1.32°
- Zoom steps
- 9
Aircraft & route
- Flight
- UAL1597
- Registration
- N24224
- Type
- Boeing 737NG 824/W
- Airline
- United
- From
- SFO
- To
- —
- Ground speed
- 290 kt
- Altitude at closest
- 9,725 ft
- Vertical rate
- +2,688 ft/min
- Category
- A3
- ICAO hex
- a23a28
Pass geometry
- Max elevation
- 33.2°
- Elevation at start → end
- 19.4° → 22.5°
- Azimuth at start → end
- 314° NW → 207° SSW
- Closest-approach azimuth
- 258° WSW
- Minimum slant range
- 5.4 km
- Heading at closest
- 175° S
- Aspect at closest
- side-on (82°)
- Turn
- straight (5°)
- Departure
- Yes — climbing out after take-off
- Zenith pass
- No
- Dead-zone wrap
- No
- Duration
- 1:23 (82.6 s)
- Lock
- 91%
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
- 40.0 MB · 82.4 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
- -0.11
- correctionSlewDps
- 2.5
- kp
- 1
- ki
- 0.6
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