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UAL2441 United

Boeing 737NG 824/W · N18243 · SFO → ?

· 1:58Quality 84lost lockside-on

3D replay

Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −79%). 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
85%
First lockfrom target selected
5.3 s
Centring, medianaz / el while locked
0.11° / 0.10°
Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
0.39° / 0.25°
Tightest field of viewhorizontal
3.4°
Time to 8°from first lock
3.6 s
Time to tightestfrom first lock
66.5 s
Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
107.8 s
Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
0.20° / 0.14°
Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
1.18° / 1.38°
Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
0.0
Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
3.22°
Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
1.44°
Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
0.49°
Largest correctionvision vs prediction
1.25°
Zoom steps
20

Aircraft & route

Flight
UAL2441
Registration
N18243
Type
Boeing 737NG 824/W
Airline
United
From
SFO
To
—
Ground speed
287 kt
Altitude at closest
8,975 ft
Vertical rate
+3,136 ft/min
Category
A3
ICAO hex
a14b1a

Pass geometry

Max elevation
30.7°
Elevation at start → end
26.2° → 11.5°
Azimuth at start → end
297° WNW → 199° SSW
Closest-approach azimuth
261° W
Minimum slant range
5.2 km
Heading at closest
183° S
Aspect at closest
side-on (78°)
Turn
straight (2°)
Departure
Yes — climbing out after take-off
Zenith pass
No
Dead-zone wrap
No
Duration
1:58 (118.4 s)
Lock
85%

Build & tuning

The tracker build that flew this pass and the live settings that mattered, so passes can be compared across changes.

Build
2026-10-16d — interleaved A/B (experiment mountPrior)
Commit
221ec3f
Node
v22.22.2
Camera
TONGVEO 20x PTZ · 1920×1080 @ 30 fps
Clip
86.9 MB · 118.0 s · offset -0.4 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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