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THY79K Turkish Airlines

Airbus A350-941 · TC-LGP · SFO → ?

· 1:00Quality 64lost lockwrap pinnedside-onturned left 26°Dead-zone wrap

3D replay

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
32%
First lockfrom target selected
4.7 s
Centring, medianaz / el while locked
0.96° / 1.58°
Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
2.73° / 7.94°
Tightest field of viewhorizontal
10.8°
Time to 8°from first lock
—
Time to tightestfrom first lock
37.7 s
Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
0.0 s
Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
—
Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
—
Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
—
Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
—
Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
—
Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
1.01°
Largest correctionvision vs prediction
1.37°
Zoom steps
40

Aircraft & route

Flight
THY79K
Registration
TC-LGP
Type
Airbus A350-941
Airline
Turkish Airlines
From
SFO
To
—
Ground speed
232 kt
Altitude at closest
2,000 ft
Vertical rate
+1,408 ft/min
Category
A5
ICAO hex
4bb0f0

Pass geometry

Max elevation
35.5°
Elevation at start → end
2.4° → 26.7°
Azimuth at start → end
117° ESE → 236° SW
Closest-approach azimuth
190° S
Minimum slant range
1.1 km
Heading at closest
275° W
Aspect at closest
side-on (85°)
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
1:00 (60.2 s)
Lock
32%

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
29.6 MB · 59.0 s · offset -1.1 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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