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DAL902 Delta Air Lines

Boeing 737NG 832/W · N386DA

· 0:42Quality 80lost lockside-on

3D replay

Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −79%). 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
71%
First lockfrom target selected
7.5 s
Centring, medianaz / el while locked
0.13° / 0.29°
Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
0.45° / 1.07°
Tightest field of viewhorizontal
3.5°
Time to 8°from first lock
3.2 s
Time to tightestfrom first lock
—
Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
32.8 s
Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
0.15° / 0.21°
Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
0.72° / 1.04°
Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
0.0
Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
18.38°
Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
0.82°
Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
0.55°
Largest correctionvision vs prediction
2.07°
Zoom steps
8

Aircraft & route

Flight
DAL902
Registration
N386DA
Type
Boeing 737NG 832/W
Airline
Delta Air Lines
From
—
To
—
Ground speed
245 kt
Altitude at closest
11,300 ft
Vertical rate
-1,472 ft/min
Category
A3
ICAO hex
a471e0

Pass geometry

Max elevation
24.3°
Elevation at start → end
18.2° → 24.3°
Azimuth at start → end
331° NNW → 1° N
Closest-approach azimuth
1° N
Minimum slant range
8.4 km
Heading at closest
108° ESE
Aspect at closest
side-on (74°)
Turn
straight (0°)
Departure
No
Zenith pass
No
Dead-zone wrap
No
Duration
0:42 (42.1 s)
Lock
71%

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
18.5 MB · 37.1 s · offset -1.0 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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