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EIN961 Aer Lingus

Airbus A330 302 · EI-GAJ · DUB → SFO

· 0:17Quality 4no planelost locklow zoomnose/tail

3D replay

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
0%
First lockfrom target selected
—
Centring, medianaz / el while locked
—
Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
—
Tightest field of viewhorizontal
39.6°
Time to 8°from first lock
—
Time to tightestfrom first lock
—
Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
0.0 s
Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
—
Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
—
Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
—
Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
—
Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
—
Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
9.56°
Largest correctionvision vs prediction
0.00°
Zoom steps
3

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
10,275 ft
Vertical rate
-1,856 ft/min
Category
A5
ICAO hex
4ca7d8

Pass geometry

Max elevation
13.2°
Elevation at start → end
13.2° → 10.8°
Azimuth at start → end
145° SE → 146° SE
Closest-approach azimuth
145° SE
Minimum slant range
13.7 km
Heading at closest
157° SSE
Aspect at closest
nose/tail (12°)
Turn
straight (0°)
Departure
No
Zenith pass
No
Dead-zone wrap
No
Duration
0:17 (16.5 s)
Lock
0%

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
8.4 MB · 16.9 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
-0.21
correctionSlewDps
2.5
kp
1
ki
0.6

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