FFT2858 Frontier
Airbus A321-271NX · N629FR · SFO → LAX
· 0:47Quality 86nose/tailturned left 22°
Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −78%). 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
- 89%
- First lockfrom target selected
- 5.5 s
- Centring, medianaz / el while locked
- 0.11° / 0.07°
- Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
- 0.24° / 0.28°
- Tightest field of viewhorizontal
- 3.4°
- Time to 8°from first lock
- 2.1 s
- Time to tightestfrom first lock
- 6.4 s
- Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
- 40.6 s
- Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
- 0.13° / 0.14°
- Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
- 0.83° / 0.67°
- Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
- 0.0
- Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
- 1.09°
- Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
- 0.61°
- Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
- 0.34°
- Largest correctionvision vs prediction
- 1.46°
- Zoom steps
- 17
Aircraft & route
- Flight
- FFT2858
- Registration
- N629FR
- Type
- Airbus A321-271NX
- Airline
- Frontier
- From
- SFO · San Francisco
- To
- LAX · Los Angeles
- Ground speed
- 320 kt
- Altitude at closest
- 11,175 ft
- Vertical rate
- +960 ft/min
- Category
- A3
- ICAO hex
- a83839
Pass geometry
- Max elevation
- 20.0°
- Elevation at start → end
- 20.0° → 13.1°
- Azimuth at start → end
- 213° SSW → 197° SSW
- Closest-approach azimuth
- 213° SSW
- Minimum slant range
- 10.0 km
- Heading at closest
- 182° S
- Aspect at closest
- nose/tail (31°)
- Turn
- turned left 22°
- Departure
- Yes — climbing out after take-off
- Zenith pass
- No
- Dead-zone wrap
- No
- Duration
- 0:47 (47.1 s)
- Lock
- 89%
Build & tuning
The tracker build that flew this pass and the live settings that mattered, so passes can be compared across changes.
- Build
- 2026-10-16i — lock-first on; shadow silhouette sky-masked
- Commit
- 5610684
- Node
- v22.22.2
- Camera
- TONGVEO 20x PTZ · 1920×1080 @ 30 fps
- Clip
- 3.6 MB · 47.0 s · offset -1.4 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
- -0.19
- correctionSlewDps
- 2.5
- kp
- 1
- ki
- 0.6
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