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BAW28K British Airways

Boeing 777 336ER · G-STBG · LHR → SFO

· 2:24Quality 95side-onturned right 18°

3D replay

Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −78%). 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
73%
First lockfrom target selected
30.9 s
Centring, medianaz / el while locked
0.13° / 0.13°
Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
0.33° / 0.31°
Tightest field of viewhorizontal
3.4°
Time to 8°from first lock
5.2 s
Time to tightestfrom first lock
105.4 s
Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
79.4 s
Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
0.17° / 0.18°
Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
1.16° / 0.94°
Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
0.0
Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
8.23°
Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
3.01°
Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
0.73°
Largest correctionvision vs prediction
1.54°
Zoom steps
51

Aircraft & route

Flight
BAW28K
Registration
G-STBG
Type
Boeing 777 336ER
Airline
British Airways
From
LHR · London
To
SFO · San Francisco
Ground speed
260 kt
Altitude at closest
11,525 ft
Vertical rate
0 ft/min
Category
A5
ICAO hex
406947

Pass geometry

Max elevation
70.3°
Elevation at start → end
17.9° → 20.9°
Azimuth at start → end
327° NNW → 139° SE
Closest-approach azimuth
51° NE
Minimum slant range
3.7 km
Heading at closest
140° SE
Aspect at closest
side-on (89°)
Turn
turned right 18°
Departure
No
Zenith pass
No
Dead-zone wrap
No
Duration
2:24 (143.7 s)
Lock
73%

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
72.0 MB · 144.0 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
-0.03
correctionSlewDps
2.5
kp
1
ki
0.6

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