UAL2281 United
Airbus A320 232 · N488UA · SFO → ?
· 1:25Quality 69lost lockside-onturned left 26°Dead-zone wrap
Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −81%). 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
- 64%
- First lockfrom target selected
- 11.3 s
- Centring, medianaz / el while locked
- 0.07° / 0.09°
- Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
- 0.20° / 0.24°
- Tightest field of viewhorizontal
- 3.4°
- Time to 8°from first lock
- 3.1 s
- Time to tightestfrom first lock
- —
- Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
- 55.6 s
- Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
- 0.10° / 0.13°
- Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
- 0.65° / 0.64°
- Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
- 0.2
- Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
- 1.48°
- Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
- 0.61°
- Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
- 0.60°
- Largest correctionvision vs prediction
- 1.03°
- Zoom steps
- 40
Aircraft & route
- Flight
- UAL2281
- Registration
- N488UA
- Type
- Airbus A320 232
- Airline
- United
- From
- SFO
- To
- —
- Ground speed
- 288 kt
- Altitude at closest
- 10,800 ft
- Vertical rate
- +1,984 ft/min
- Category
- A3
- ICAO hex
- a60814
Pass geometry
- Max elevation
- 17.3°
- Elevation at start → end
- 17.3° → 12.2°
- Azimuth at start → end
- 222° SW → 169° SSE
- Closest-approach azimuth
- 222° SW
- Minimum slant range
- 11.2 km
- Heading at closest
- 156° SSE
- Aspect at closest
- side-on (66°)
- Turn
- turned left 26°
- Departure
- Yes — climbing out after take-off
- Zenith pass
- No
- Dead-zone wrap
- Yes — pan pre-positioned across the stop
- Duration
- 1:25 (84.6 s)
- Lock
- 64%
Build & tuning
The tracker build that flew this pass and the live settings that mattered, so passes can be compared across changes.
- Build
- 2026-10-16h — lock-first association on (A/B −40% tele gaps)
- Commit
- dfc3684
- Node
- v22.22.2
- Camera
- TONGVEO 20x PTZ · 1920×1080 @ 30 fps
- Clip
- 41.6 MB · 84.0 s · offset -0.9 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
- -0.06
- correctionSlewDps
- 2.5
- kp
- 1
- ki
- 0.6
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