UAL115 United
Boeing 787 9 · N27957 · SFO → PPT
· 0:57Quality 78clip shortside-on
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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
- 69%
- First lockfrom target selected
- 17.3 s
- Centring, medianaz / el while locked
- 0.59° / 0.45°
- Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
- 2.67° / 2.88°
- Tightest field of viewhorizontal
- 4.1°
- Time to 8°from first lock
- 32.4 s
- Time to tightestfrom first lock
- —
- Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
- 1.3 s
- Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
- —
- Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
- —
- Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
- 0.0
- Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
- —
- Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
- —
- Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
- 1.21°
- Largest correctionvision vs prediction
- 2.12°
- Zoom steps
- 62
Aircraft & route
- Flight
- UAL115
- Registration
- N27957
- Type
- Boeing 787 9 (B789)
- Airline
- United
- From
- SFO · San Francisco
- To
- PPT · Papeete
- Ground speed
- 191 kt
- Altitude at closest
- 1,000 ft
- Vertical rate
- +2,176 ft/min
- Category
- A5
- ICAO hex
- a2cb12
Pass geometry
- Max elevation
- 78.7°
- Elevation at start → end
- 0.9° → 11.8°
- Azimuth at start → end
- 116° ESE → 299° WNW
- Closest-approach azimuth
- 24° NNE
- Minimum slant range
- 341 m
- Heading at closest
- 298° WNW
- Aspect at closest
- side-on (87°)
- Turn
- straight (4°)
- Departure
- Yes — climbing out after take-off
- Zenith pass
- No
- Dead-zone wrap
- No
- Duration
- 0:57 (56.5 s)
- Lock
- 69%
Build & tuning
The tracker build that flew this pass and the live settings that mattered, so passes can be compared across changes.
- Build
- 2026-10-16c — mount prior carried to the next target (silhouette reach reverted)
- Commit
- 8649c7d
- Node
- v22.22.2
- Camera
- TONGVEO 20x PTZ · 1920×1080 @ 30 fps
- Clip
- 29.3 MB · 28.5 s · offset -0.2 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
- -0.1
- correctionSlewDps
- 2.5
- kp
- 1
- ki
- 0.6
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