UAL939 United
LHR → SFO
· 0:14Quality 4no planeshortlost locklow zoomnose/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
- 0%
- First lockfrom target selected
- —
- Centring, medianaz / el while locked
- —
- Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
- —
- Tightest field of viewhorizontal
- 17.7°
- Time to 8°from first lock
- —
- Time to tightestfrom first lock
- —
- Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
- 0.0 s
- Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
- —
- Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
- —
- Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
- —
- Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
- —
- Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
- —
- Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
- 2.71°
- Largest correctionvision vs prediction
- 0.00°
- Zoom steps
- 19
Aircraft & route
- Flight
- UAL939
- Registration
- —
- Type
- —
- Airline
- United
- From
- LHR · London
- To
- SFO · San Francisco
- Ground speed
- 250 kt
- Altitude at closest
- 11,475 ft
- Vertical rate
- 0 ft/min
- Category
- A5
- ICAO hex
- a7f4e7
Pass geometry
- Max elevation
- 20.8°
- Elevation at start → end
- 17.8° → 20.8°
- Azimuth at start → end
- 326° NNW → 328° NNW
- Closest-approach azimuth
- 328° NNW
- Minimum slant range
- 9.9 km
- Heading at closest
- 140° SE
- Aspect at closest
- nose/tail (8°)
- Turn
- straight (0°)
- Departure
- No
- Zenith pass
- No
- Dead-zone wrap
- No
- Duration
- 0:14 (13.5 s)
- Lock
- 0%
Build & tuning
The tracker build that flew this pass and the live settings that mattered, so passes can be compared across changes.
- Build
- 2026-10-15u — driver limits live (tilt range follows the slip)
- Commit
- 82eb706
- Node
- v22.22.2
- Camera
- TONGVEO 20x PTZ · 1920×1080 @ 30 fps
- Clip
- 6.5 MB · 13.0 s · offset -0.8 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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