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DLH454 Lufthansa

Boeing 747 830 · D-ABYC · SFO → SFO

· 1:27Quality 87side-onOverhead

3D replay

Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −52%). 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
51%
First lockfrom target selected
33.7 s
Centring, medianaz / el while locked
0.36° / 0.53°
Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
1.75° / 3.23°
Tightest field of viewhorizontal
4.1°
Time to 8°from first lock
39.3 s
Time to tightestfrom first lock
51.7 s
Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
9.6 s
Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
0.23° / 0.25°
Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
1.15° / 1.21°
Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
3.1
Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
0.74°
Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
1.00°
Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
1.06°
Largest correctionvision vs prediction
0.86°
Zoom steps
85

Aircraft & route

Flight
DLH454
Registration
D-ABYC
Type
Boeing 747 830 (B748)
Airline
Lufthansa
From
SFO · Frankfurt am Main
To
SFO · San Francisco
Ground speed
229 kt
Altitude at closest
2,350 ft
Vertical rate
+1,344 ft/min
Category
A5
ICAO hex
3c4b23

Pass geometry

Max elevation
63.3°
Elevation at start → end
0.3° → 12.3°
Azimuth at start → end
119° ESE → 290° WNW
Closest-approach azimuth
205° SSW
Minimum slant range
834 m
Heading at closest
292° WNW
Aspect at closest
side-on (87°)
Turn
straight (6°)
Departure
Yes — climbing out after take-off
Zenith pass
Yes — camera flipped over the top
Dead-zone wrap
No
Duration
1:27 (86.7 s)
Lock
51%

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
43.5 MB · 87.0 s · offset -1.2 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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