UAL949 United
LHR → SFO
· 2:40Quality 91side-onturned left 17°
Trace
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
- 94%
- First lockfrom target selected
- 5.8 s
- Centring, medianaz / el while locked
- 0.10° / 0.10°
- Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
- 0.25° / 0.39°
- Tightest field of viewhorizontal
- 3.4°
- Time to 8°from first lock
- 3.8 s
- Time to tightestfrom first lock
- 108.9 s
- Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
- 136.7 s
- Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
- 0.15° / 0.20°
- Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
- 1.44° / 2.17°
- Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
- 0.4
- Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
- 1.78°
- Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
- 0.79°
- Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
- 0.52°
- Largest correctionvision vs prediction
- 0.45°
- Zoom steps
- 34
Aircraft & route
- Flight
- UAL949
- Registration
- —
- Type
- —
- Airline
- United
- From
- LHR · London
- To
- SFO · San Francisco
- Ground speed
- 258 kt
- Altitude at closest
- 11,475 ft
- Vertical rate
- —
- Category
- A5
- ICAO hex
- ab0faa
Pass geometry
- Max elevation
- 30.8°
- Elevation at start → end
- 19.7° → 14.3°
- Azimuth at start → end
- 328° NNW → 85° E
- Closest-approach azimuth
- 20° NNE
- Minimum slant range
- 6.8 km
- Heading at closest
- 110° ESE
- Aspect at closest
- side-on (90°)
- Turn
- turned left 17°
- Departure
- No
- Zenith pass
- No
- Dead-zone wrap
- No
- Duration
- 2:40 (160.1 s)
- Lock
- 94%
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
- 79.8 MB · 160.0 s · offset -0.7 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
This clip and poster are © Skylight (Cameron Paczek): free for non-commercial use with credit to skylightceiling.com, not MIT. License