UAL968 United
Boeing 777 224ER · N78002 · SFO → AMS
· 1:11Quality 78lens stuckside-onOverhead
Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −83%). 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
- 57%
- First lockfrom target selected
- 20.2 s
- Centring, medianaz / el while locked
- 0.49° / 0.45°
- Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
- 3.42° / 5.31°
- Tightest field of viewhorizontal
- 5.0°
- Time to 8°from first lock
- 36.2 s
- Time to tightestfrom first lock
- 45.4 s
- Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
- 5.5 s
- Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
- 0.26° / 0.02°
- Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
- 0.57° / 0.04°
- Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
- 5.5
- Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
- 0.63°
- Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
- 0.52°
- Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
- 0.74°
- Largest correctionvision vs prediction
- 0.98°
- Zoom steps
- 47
Aircraft & route
- Flight
- UAL968
- Registration
- N78002
- Type
- Boeing 777 224ER (B772)
- Airline
- United
- From
- SFO · San Francisco
- To
- AMS · Amsterdam
- Ground speed
- 183 kt
- Altitude at closest
- 1,200 ft
- Vertical rate
- +1,920 ft/min
- Category
- A5
- ICAO hex
- aa92f9
Pass geometry
- Max elevation
- 73.3°
- Elevation at start → end
- 0.4° → 12.1°
- Azimuth at start → end
- 121° ESE → 297° WNW
- Closest-approach azimuth
- 212° SSW
- Minimum slant range
- 418 m
- Heading at closest
- 298° WNW
- Aspect at closest
- side-on (87°)
- Turn
- straight (0°)
- Departure
- Yes — climbing out after take-off
- Zenith pass
- Yes — camera flipped over the top
- Dead-zone wrap
- No
- Duration
- 1:11 (71.1 s)
- Lock
- 57%
Build & tuning
The tracker build that flew this pass and the live settings that mattered, so passes can be compared across changes.
- Build
- 2026-10-16g — A/B lockFirst (mount prior on)
- Commit
- 9bdc356
- Node
- v22.22.2
- Camera
- TONGVEO 20x PTZ · 1920×1080 @ 30 fps
- Clip
- 36.1 MB · 72.0 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
This clip and poster are © Skylight (Cameron Paczek): free for non-commercial use with credit to skylightceiling.com, not MIT. License