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AFR84E Air France

Boeing 777 328ER · F-GZNB · CDG → SFO

· 1:48Quality 93side-onturned right 19°

3D replay

Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −71%). 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
90%
First lockfrom target selected
8.7 s
Centring, medianaz / el while locked
0.12° / 0.14°
Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
0.40° / 0.33°
Tightest field of viewhorizontal
3.4°
Time to 8°from first lock
6.7 s
Time to tightestfrom first lock
92.3 s
Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
68.6 s
Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
0.18° / 0.17°
Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
1.12° / 1.01°
Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
0.0
Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
6.16°
Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
3.03°
Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
0.76°
Largest correctionvision vs prediction
1.18°
Zoom steps
44

Aircraft & route

Flight
AFR84E
Registration
F-GZNB
Type
Boeing 777 328ER
Airline
Air France
From
CDG · Paris
To
SFO · San Francisco
Ground speed
245 kt
Altitude at closest
11,475 ft
Vertical rate
0 ft/min
Category
A5
ICAO hex
3965a1

Pass geometry

Max elevation
70.2°
Elevation at start → end
36.5° → 20.7°
Azimuth at start → end
335° NNW → 139° SE
Closest-approach azimuth
48° NE
Minimum slant range
3.7 km
Heading at closest
140° SE
Aspect at closest
side-on (89°)
Turn
turned right 19°
Departure
No
Zenith pass
No
Dead-zone wrap
No
Duration
1:48 (107.7 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
53.5 MB · 107.0 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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