UAL2281 United
Airbus A320 232 · N434UA
· 1:00Quality 87clip shortnose/tail
Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −80%). Download
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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
- 79%
- First lockfrom target selected
- 9.5 s
- Centring, medianaz / el while locked
- 0.14° / 0.16°
- Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
- 0.29° / 0.34°
- Tightest field of viewhorizontal
- 3.4°
- Time to 8°from first lock
- 3.3 s
- Time to tightestfrom first lock
- 6.8 s
- Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
- 44.1 s
- Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
- 0.16° / 0.19°
- Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
- 0.82° / 0.91°
- Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
- 0.9
- Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
- 1.03°
- Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
- 1.50°
- Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
- 0.39°
- Largest correctionvision vs prediction
- 1.39°
- Zoom steps
- 37
Aircraft & route
- Flight
- UAL2281
- Registration
- N434UA
- Type
- Airbus A320 232
- Airline
- United
- From
- —
- To
- —
- Ground speed
- 248 kt
- Altitude at closest
- 11,525 ft
- Vertical rate
- 0 ft/min
- Category
- A3
- ICAO hex
- a533bd
Pass geometry
- Max elevation
- 47.1°
- Elevation at start → end
- 18.3° → 47.1°
- Azimuth at start → end
- 327° NNW → 343° NNW
- Closest-approach azimuth
- 343° NNW
- Minimum slant range
- 4.8 km
- Heading at closest
- 140° SE
- Aspect at closest
- nose/tail (23°)
- Turn
- straight (0°)
- Departure
- No
- Zenith pass
- No
- Dead-zone wrap
- No
- Duration
- 1:00 (59.6 s)
- Lock
- 79%
Build & tuning
The tracker build that flew this pass and the live settings that mattered, so passes can be compared across changes.
- Build
- 2026-10-16e — A/B mountPrior + candidate diagnostics
- Commit
- ffe4b92
- Node
- v22.22.2
- Camera
- TONGVEO 20x PTZ · 1920×1080 @ 30 fps
- Clip
- 32.1 MB · 30.8 s · offset -1.6 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
This clip and poster are © Skylight (Cameron Paczek): free for non-commercial use with credit to skylightceiling.com, not MIT. License