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EIN961 Aer Lingus

Airbus A330 302 · EI-GCF · DUB → SFO

· 0:30Quality 85quartering

3D replay

Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −67%). 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
79%
First lockfrom target selected
6.1 s
Centring, medianaz / el while locked
0.12° / 0.11°
Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
0.44° / 0.93°
Tightest field of viewhorizontal
3.4°
Time to 8°from first lock
3.1 s
Time to tightestfrom first lock
22.2 s
Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
18.0 s
Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
0.18° / 0.32°
Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
0.87° / 1.53°
Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
0.0
Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
1.32°
Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
1.28°
Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
0.47°
Largest correctionvision vs prediction
0.65°
Zoom steps
29

Aircraft & route

Flight
EIN961
Registration
EI-GCF
Type
Airbus A330 302
Airline
Aer Lingus
From
DUB · Dublin
To
SFO · San Francisco
Ground speed
284 kt
Altitude at closest
9,725 ft
Vertical rate
-2,688 ft/min
Category
A5
ICAO hex
4ca86e

Pass geometry

Max elevation
22.4°
Elevation at start → end
22.4° → 13.7°
Azimuth at start → end
57° ENE → 76° ENE
Closest-approach azimuth
57° ENE
Minimum slant range
7.8 km
Heading at closest
110° ESE
Aspect at closest
quartering (53°)
Turn
straight (2°)
Departure
No
Zenith pass
No
Dead-zone wrap
No
Duration
0:30 (30.1 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
2026-10-16f — A/B mountPrior, cand diagnostics, clip-short flag
Commit
3ea7ff5
Node
v22.22.2
Camera
TONGVEO 20x PTZ · 1920×1080 @ 30 fps
Clip
15.5 MB · 31.0 s · offset -1.7 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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