CPA879 Cathay Pacific
Boeing 777 367ER · B-KQN · SFO → HKG
· 1:02Quality 72nose/tailOverhead
Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −78%). Download
Trace
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
- 60%
- First lockfrom target selected
- 14.8 s
- Centring, medianaz / el while locked
- 0.19° / 0.24°
- Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
- 0.47° / 1.20°
- Tightest field of viewhorizontal
- 10.8°
- Time to 8°from first lock
- —
- Time to tightestfrom first lock
- 0.0 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
- 0.75°
- Largest correctionvision vs prediction
- 0.84°
- Zoom steps
- 0
Aircraft & route
- Flight
- CPA879
- Registration
- B-KQN
- Type
- Boeing 777 367ER (B77W)
- Airline
- Cathay Pacific
- From
- SFO · San Francisco
- To
- HKG · Hong Kong
- Ground speed
- 199 kt
- Altitude at closest
- 1,150 ft
- Vertical rate
- +3,008 ft/min
- Category
- A5
- ICAO hex
- 780a62
Pass geometry
- Max elevation
- 80.6°
- Elevation at start → end
- 0.4° → 13.7°
- Azimuth at start → end
- 116° ESE → 299° WNW
- Closest-approach azimuth
- 20° NNE
- Minimum slant range
- 400 m
- Heading at closest
- 299° WNW
- Aspect at closest
- nose/tail (7°)
- Turn
- straight (0°)
- Departure
- Yes — climbing out after take-off
- Zenith pass
- Yes — camera flipped over the top
- Dead-zone wrap
- No
- Duration
- 1:02 (61.6 s)
- Lock
- 60%
Build & tuning
The tracker build that flew this pass and the live settings that mattered, so passes can be compared across changes.
- Build
- 2026-10-13g — debanding (archive s2 + live shader)
- Commit
- 181d1fa+wip
- Node
- v22.22.2
- Camera
- TONGVEO 20x PTZ · 1920×1080 @ 30 fps
- Clip
- 31.1 MB · 62.0 s · offset -1.5 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