FDX1207 FedEx
Boeing 767 300F · N169FE · SJC → MEM
· 1:10Quality 83nose/tailOverhead
Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −72%). 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
- 73%
- First lockfrom target selected
- 8.6 s
- Centring, medianaz / el while locked
- 0.23° / 0.90°
- Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
- 1.70° / 2.74°
- Tightest field of viewhorizontal
- 4.1°
- Time to 8°from first lock
- 27.6 s
- Time to tightestfrom first lock
- 49.8 s
- Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
- 12.0 s
- Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
- 0.19° / 0.58°
- Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
- 0.66° / 1.64°
- Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
- 1.7
- Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
- 0.70°
- Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
- 1.38°
- Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
- 1.16°
- Largest correctionvision vs prediction
- 1.44°
- Zoom steps
- 65
Aircraft & route
- Flight
- FDX1207
- Registration
- N169FE
- Type
- Boeing 767 300F
- Airline
- FedEx
- From
- SJC · San Jose
- To
- MEM · Memphis
- Ground speed
- 276 kt
- Altitude at closest
- 4,950 ft
- Vertical rate
- 0 ft/min
- Category
- A5
- ICAO hex
- a1139f
Pass geometry
- Max elevation
- 85.8°
- Elevation at start → end
- 28.8° → 12.1°
- Azimuth at start → end
- 334° NNW → 157° SSE
- Closest-approach azimuth
- 251° WSW
- Minimum slant range
- 1.5 km
- Heading at closest
- 156° SSE
- Aspect at closest
- nose/tail (10°)
- Turn
- straight (0°)
- Departure
- No
- Zenith pass
- Yes — camera flipped over the top
- Dead-zone wrap
- No
- Duration
- 1:10 (69.7 s)
- Lock
- 73%
Build & tuning
The tracker build that flew this pass and the live settings that mattered, so passes can be compared across changes.
- Build
- 2026-10-12i — focus jumps only to trusted tele points; rate-steered setpoint; bias learned only when still
- Commit
- 68739f5+wip
- Node
- v22.22.2
- Camera
- TONGVEO 20x PTZ · 1920×1080 @ 30 fps
- Clip
- 32.7 MB · 67.3 s · offset -0.9 s
- pursuit
- velocity
- maxLeadSec
- 3
- panLatencySec
- 0.6
- tiltLatencySec
- 0.4
- rippleDeg
- 0.5
- rippleTeleDeg
- 0.25
- rateFloorDegPerDps
- 2.5
- rateFloorMaxDeg
- 12
- lockedSigmaDeg
- 0.35
- 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