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UAL2409 United

Boeing 737NG 824/W · N77518

· 2:09Quality 83lost lockside-onturned right 28°

3D replay

Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −73%). 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
81%
First lockfrom target selected
3.8 s
Centring, medianaz / el while locked
0.12° / 0.15°
Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
0.95° / 0.80°
Tightest field of viewhorizontal
3.4°
Time to 8°from first lock
11.5 s
Time to tightestfrom first lock
69.1 s
Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
102.3 s
Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
0.27° / 0.22°
Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
2.14° / 1.71°
Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
0.0
Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
6.12°
Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
1.36°
Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
0.47°
Largest correctionvision vs prediction
7.01°
Zoom steps
60

Aircraft & route

Flight
UAL2409
Registration
N77518
Type
Boeing 737NG 824/W
Airline
United
From
—
To
—
Ground speed
236 kt
Altitude at closest
11,450 ft
Vertical rate
0 ft/min
Category
A3
ICAO hex
aa7e36

Pass geometry

Max elevation
70.2°
Elevation at start → end
59.9° → 10.9°
Azimuth at start → end
358° N → 145° SE
Closest-approach azimuth
50° NE
Minimum slant range
3.7 km
Heading at closest
140° SE
Aspect at closest
side-on (90°)
Turn
turned right 28°
Departure
No
Zenith pass
No
Dead-zone wrap
No
Duration
2:09 (128.6 s)
Lock
81%

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
61.4 MB · 126.7 s · offset -1.1 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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