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AAL2275 American Airlines

Airbus A321 253NXSL · N451AN · SFO → ?

· 0:13Quality 40shortside-on

3D replay

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
50%
First lockfrom target selected
5.9 s
Centring, medianaz / el while locked
1.42° / 1.54°
Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
6.94° / 2.19°
Tightest field of viewhorizontal
3.4°
Time to 8°from first lock
5.8 s
Time to tightestfrom first lock
—
Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
2.8 s
Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
0.00° / 0.00°
Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
0.00° / 0.00°
Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
3.6
Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
—
Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
—
Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
3.89°
Largest correctionvision vs prediction
1.39°
Zoom steps
32

Aircraft & route

Flight
AAL2275
Registration
N451AN
Type
Airbus A321 253NXSL
Airline
American Airlines
From
SFO
To
—
Ground speed
274 kt
Altitude at closest
6,050 ft
Vertical rate
+2,880 ft/min
Category
A3
ICAO hex
a575e0

Pass geometry

Max elevation
25.5°
Elevation at start → end
18.2° → 25.5°
Azimuth at start → end
326° NW → 310° NW
Closest-approach azimuth
310° NW
Minimum slant range
4.4 km
Heading at closest
185° S
Aspect at closest
side-on (55°)
Turn
straight (4°)
Departure
Yes — climbing out after take-off
Zenith pass
No
Dead-zone wrap
No
Duration
0:13 (12.5 s)
Lock
50%

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
6.0 MB · 12.0 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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