UAL1164 United
Boeing 737 MAX 9 · N17433 · SFO → ?
· 2:07Quality 87lost lockside-onturned 23°
Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −69%). Download
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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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
- 90%
- First lockfrom target selected
- 5.3 s
- Centring, medianaz / el while locked
- 0.11° / 0.12°
- Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
- 0.49° / 0.34°
- Tightest field of viewhorizontal
- 3.4°
- Time to 8°from first lock
- 3.9 s
- Time to tightestfrom first lock
- 67.2 s
- Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
- 94.9 s
- Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
- 0.19° / 0.21°
- Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
- 1.22° / 1.46°
- Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
- 0.2
- Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
- 6.01°
- Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
- 5.02°
- Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
- 0.44°
- Largest correctionvision vs prediction
- 1.82°
- Zoom steps
- 33
Aircraft & route
- Flight
- UAL1164
- Registration
- N17433
- Type
- Boeing 737 MAX 9
- Airline
- United
- From
- SFO
- To
- —
- Ground speed
- 261 kt
- Altitude at closest
- 6,400 ft
- Vertical rate
- +1,600 ft/min
- Category
- A3
- ICAO hex
- a12ae6
Pass geometry
- Max elevation
- 49.5°
- Elevation at start → end
- 19.5° → 13.0°
- Azimuth at start → end
- 346° NNW → 199° SSW
- Closest-approach azimuth
- 276° W
- Minimum slant range
- 2.6 km
- Heading at closest
- 191° S
- Aspect at closest
- side-on (85°)
- Turn
- turned 23°
- Departure
- Yes — climbing out after take-off
- Zenith pass
- No
- Dead-zone wrap
- No
- Duration
- 2:07 (127.0 s)
- Lock
- 90%
Build & tuning
The tracker build that flew this pass and the live settings that mattered, so passes can be compared across changes.
- Build
- 2026-10-16b — silhouette fallback reach 0.8° + multipart uploads
- Commit
- 2ed816b
- Node
- v22.22.2
- Camera
- TONGVEO 20x PTZ · 1920×1080 @ 30 fps
- Clip
- 63.5 MB · 127.0 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