UAL574 United
Boeing 737NG 824/W · N73291 · SFO → ?
· 1:42Quality 89side-onturned left 48°
Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −76%). Download
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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
- 70%
- First lockfrom target selected
- 29.2 s
- Centring, medianaz / el while locked
- 0.13° / 0.11°
- Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
- 0.30° / 0.27°
- Tightest field of viewhorizontal
- 3.4°
- Time to 8°from first lock
- 3.9 s
- Time to tightestfrom first lock
- 64.3 s
- Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
- 66.9 s
- Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
- 0.15° / 0.16°
- Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
- 0.89° / 0.96°
- Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
- 0.0
- Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
- 3.44°
- Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
- 1.40°
- Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
- 1.15°
- Largest correctionvision vs prediction
- 0.66°
- Zoom steps
- 55
Aircraft & route
- Flight
- UAL574
- Registration
- N73291
- Type
- Boeing 737NG 824/W
- Airline
- United
- From
- SFO
- To
- —
- Ground speed
- 285 kt
- Altitude at closest
- 6,400 ft
- Vertical rate
- +2,816 ft/min
- Category
- A3
- ICAO hex
- a9d626
Pass geometry
- Max elevation
- 34.8°
- Elevation at start → end
- 19.0° → 18.2°
- Azimuth at start → end
- 339° NNW → 181° S
- Closest-approach azimuth
- 278° W
- Minimum slant range
- 3.4 km
- Heading at closest
- 196° SSW
- Aspect at closest
- side-on (82°)
- Turn
- turned left 48°
- Departure
- Yes — climbing out after take-off
- Zenith pass
- No
- Dead-zone wrap
- No
- Duration
- 1:42 (101.6 s)
- Lock
- 70%
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
- 48.4 MB · 98.6 s · offset -0.9 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
This clip and poster are © Skylight (Cameron Paczek): free for non-commercial use with credit to skylightceiling.com, not MIT. License