UAL2661 United
Boeing 737 MAX 9 · N17455 · SFO → ?
· 1:07Quality 95side-onturned left 40°
Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −75%). 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
- 87%
- First lockfrom target selected
- 8.8 s
- Centring, medianaz / el while locked
- 0.15° / 0.11°
- Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
- 0.77° / 1.05°
- Tightest field of viewhorizontal
- 4.0°
- Time to 8°from first lock
- 6.0 s
- Time to tightestfrom first lock
- 58.1 s
- Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
- 50.5 s
- Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
- 0.27° / 0.32°
- Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
- 1.89° / 1.97°
- Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
- 0.0
- Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
- 3.08°
- Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
- 1.62°
- Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
- 0.80°
- Largest correctionvision vs prediction
- 2.26°
- Zoom steps
- 37
Aircraft & route
- Flight
- UAL2661
- Registration
- N17455
- Type
- Boeing 737 MAX 9
- Airline
- United
- From
- SFO
- To
- —
- Ground speed
- 253 kt
- Altitude at closest
- 4,575 ft
- Vertical rate
- +1,344 ft/min
- Category
- A3
- ICAO hex
- a12b2e
Pass geometry
- Max elevation
- 26.8°
- Elevation at start → end
- 26.7° → 15.3°
- Azimuth at start → end
- 311° NW → 211° SSW
- Closest-approach azimuth
- 305° NW
- Minimum slant range
- 3.1 km
- Heading at closest
- 222° SW
- Aspect at closest
- side-on (83°)
- Turn
- turned left 40°
- Departure
- Yes — climbing out after take-off
- Zenith pass
- No
- Dead-zone wrap
- No
- Duration
- 1:07 (67.0 s)
- Lock
- 87%
Build & tuning
The tracker build that flew this pass and the live settings that mattered, so passes can be compared across changes.
- Build
- 2026-10-16a — main b067f99 (review cleanup)
- Commit
- b067f99
- Node
- v22.22.2
- Camera
- TONGVEO 20x PTZ · 1920×1080 @ 30 fps
- Clip
- 32.0 MB · 66.4 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
- -0.03
- 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