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ITY641 ITA Airways

Airbus A330-900neo · EI-TYD · SFO → FCO

· 1:01Quality 70side-on

3D replay

Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −74%). 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
58%
First lockfrom target selected
11.8 s
Centring, medianaz / el while locked
0.93° / 1.10°
Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
4.46° / 6.79°
Tightest field of viewhorizontal
4.1°
Time to 8°from first lock
48.7 s
Time to tightestfrom first lock
—
Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
1.4 s
Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
—
Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
—
Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
7.1
Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
1.48°
Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
6.84°
Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
1.83°
Largest correctionvision vs prediction
1.09°
Zoom steps
65

Aircraft & route

Flight
ITY641
Registration
EI-TYD
Type
Airbus A330-900neo (A339)
Airline
ITA Airways
From
SFO · San Francisco
To
FCO · Rome
Ground speed
179 kt
Altitude at closest
1,275 ft
Vertical rate
+768 ft/min
Category
A5
ICAO hex
4caeb3

Pass geometry

Max elevation
79.1°
Elevation at start → end
0.2° → 11.3°
Azimuth at start → end
116° ESE → 300° WNW
Closest-approach azimuth
26° NNE
Minimum slant range
417 m
Heading at closest
298° WNW
Aspect at closest
side-on (89°)
Turn
straight (0°)
Departure
Yes — climbing out after take-off
Zenith pass
No
Dead-zone wrap
No
Duration
1:01 (60.6 s)
Lock
58%

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
30.0 MB · 60.0 s · offset -1.0 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
-0.15
correctionSlewDps
2.5
kp
1
ki
0.6

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