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UAL969 United

Boeing 777 224ER · N77022 · AMS → SFO

· 2:08Quality 90side-onturned right 15°

3D replay

Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −69%). 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
82%
First lockfrom target selected
7.0 s
Centring, medianaz / el while locked
0.15° / 0.12°
Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
0.55° / 0.46°
Tightest field of viewhorizontal
3.8°
Time to 8°from first lock
18.1 s
Time to tightestfrom first lock
20.5 s
Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
78.5 s
Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
0.28° / 0.17°
Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
3.25° / 1.60°
Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
0.5
Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
12.05°
Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
3.04°
Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
0.86°
Largest correctionvision vs prediction
2.50°
Zoom steps
32

Aircraft & route

Flight
UAL969
Registration
N77022
Type
Boeing 777 224ER
Airline
United
From
AMS · Amsterdam
To
SFO · San Francisco
Ground speed
256 kt
Altitude at closest
11,500 ft
Vertical rate
0 ft/min
Category
A5
ICAO hex
aa6bc0

Pass geometry

Max elevation
70.3°
Elevation at start → end
17.7° → 25.8°
Azimuth at start → end
327° NNW → 132° SE
Closest-approach azimuth
48° NE
Minimum slant range
3.7 km
Heading at closest
140° SE
Aspect at closest
side-on (88°)
Turn
turned right 15°
Departure
No
Zenith pass
No
Dead-zone wrap
No
Duration
2:08 (127.9 s)
Lock
82%

Build & tuning

The tracker build that flew this pass and the live settings that mattered, so passes can be compared across changes.

Build
2026-10-15t — vertical rate falls back to geom_rate (server)
Commit
218644c
Node
v22.22.2
Camera
TONGVEO 20x PTZ · 1920×1080 @ 30 fps
Clip
64.0 MB · 128.0 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
-0.16
correctionSlewDps
2.5
kp
1
ki
0.6

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