UAL8205 United
Boeing 737NG 924ER/W · N39450 · SFO → ?
· 0:18Quality 54lost locknose/tail
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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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
- 33%
- First lockfrom target selected
- 12.2 s
- Centring, medianaz / el while locked
- 0.10° / 0.13°
- Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
- 0.25° / 0.34°
- Tightest field of viewhorizontal
- 3.9°
- Time to 8°from first lock
- 4.0 s
- Time to tightestfrom first lock
- —
- Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
- 1.3 s
- Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
- —
- Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
- —
- Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
- 0.0
- Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
- —
- Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
- —
- Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
- 1.04°
- Largest correctionvision vs prediction
- 0.45°
- Zoom steps
- 31
Aircraft & route
- Flight
- UAL8205
- Registration
- N39450
- Type
- Boeing 737NG 924ER/W
- Airline
- United
- From
- SFO
- To
- —
- Ground speed
- 297 kt
- Altitude at closest
- 8,900 ft
- Vertical rate
- +2,752 ft/min
- Category
- A3
- ICAO hex
- a494c5
Pass geometry
- Max elevation
- 17.9°
- Elevation at start → end
- 17.9° → 14.9°
- Azimuth at start → end
- 212° SSW → 206° SSW
- Closest-approach azimuth
- 212° SSW
- Minimum slant range
- 8.9 km
- Heading at closest
- 187° S
- Aspect at closest
- nose/tail (25°)
- Turn
- straight (0°)
- Departure
- Yes — climbing out after take-off
- Zenith pass
- No
- Dead-zone wrap
- No
- Duration
- 0:18 (18.1 s)
- Lock
- 33%
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
- 6.9 MB · 14.0 s · offset -1.6 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
- -0.09
- correctionSlewDps
- 2.5
- kp
- 1
- ki
- 0.6
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