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THY79K Turkish Airlines

Airbus A350-941 · TC-LGP · IST → SFO

· 1:04Quality 97side-on

3D replay

Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −79%). 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
90%
First lockfrom target selected
5.2 s
Centring, medianaz / el while locked
0.38° / 0.15°
Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
1.65° / 0.39°
Tightest field of viewhorizontal
4.1°
Time to 8°from first lock
4.2 s
Time to tightestfrom first lock
26.4 s
Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
30.3 s
Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
0.39° / 0.15°
Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
1.98° / 0.82°
Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
0.0
Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
3.47°
Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
1.01°
Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
0.89°
Largest correctionvision vs prediction
1.82°
Zoom steps
23

Aircraft & route

Flight
THY79K
Registration
TC-LGP
Type
Airbus A350-941
Airline
Turkish Airlines
From
IST · Arnavutköy, Istanbul
To
SFO · San Francisco
Ground speed
306 kt
Altitude at closest
10,975 ft
Vertical rate
-448 ft/min
Category
A5
ICAO hex
4bb0f0

Pass geometry

Max elevation
37.7°
Elevation at start → end
33.8° → 19.9°
Azimuth at start → end
354° N → 77° ENE
Closest-approach azimuth
23° NNE
Minimum slant range
5.5 km
Heading at closest
115° ESE
Aspect at closest
side-on (89°)
Turn
straight (8°)
Departure
No
Zenith pass
No
Dead-zone wrap
No
Duration
1:04 (63.6 s)
Lock
90%

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
29.3 MB · 61.0 s · offset -1.6 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

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