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EIN961 Aer Lingus

Airbus A330 302 · EI-GAJ · DUB → SFO

· 1:02Quality 95side-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
91%
First lockfrom target selected
3.9 s
Centring, medianaz / el while locked
0.22° / 0.16°
Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
1.02° / 0.54°
Tightest field of viewhorizontal
4.1°
Time to 8°from first lock
4.9 s
Time to tightestfrom first lock
7.1 s
Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
35.2 s
Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
0.35° / 0.23°
Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
1.58° / 1.11°
Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
0.0
Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
7.21°
Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
3.17°
Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
1.32°
Largest correctionvision vs prediction
3.06°
Zoom steps
29

Aircraft & route

Flight
EIN961
Registration
EI-GAJ
Type
Airbus A330 302
Airline
Aer Lingus
From
DUB · Dublin
To
SFO · San Francisco
Ground speed
256 kt
Altitude at closest
11,475 ft
Vertical rate
0 ft/min
Category
A5
ICAO hex
4ca7d8

Pass geometry

Max elevation
70.3°
Elevation at start → end
41.6° → 37.7°
Azimuth at start → end
338° NNW → 124° ESE
Closest-approach azimuth
49° NE
Minimum slant range
3.7 km
Heading at closest
140° SE
Aspect at closest
side-on (89°)
Turn
straight (0°)
Departure
No
Zenith pass
No
Dead-zone wrap
No
Duration
1:02 (62.1 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
2026-10-15s — bias fold follows a ramp; no pass below the skyline
Commit
cdd2256
Node
v22.22.2
Camera
TONGVEO 20x PTZ · 1920×1080 @ 30 fps
Clip
28.4 MB · 61.1 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
-0.21
correctionSlewDps
2.5
kp
1
ki
0.6

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