SKW5452 SkyWest
Embraer EMB-175 LR · N156SY · RDD → SFO
· 1:12Quality 81side-on
Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −73%). Download
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Where the aircraft sat in the frame, second by second. Click the chart to jump the video there.
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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
- 79%
- First lockfrom target selected
- 5.9 s
- Centring, medianaz / el while locked
- 0.56° / 0.49°
- Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
- 2.89° / 1.22°
- Tightest field of viewhorizontal
- 4.1°
- Time to 8°from first lock
- 4.2 s
- Time to tightestfrom first lock
- 6.2 s
- Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
- 12.8 s
- Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
- 0.37° / 0.41°
- Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
- 1.50° / 1.79°
- Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
- 0.0
- Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
- 4.10°
- Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
- 1.90°
- Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
- 1.00°
- Largest correctionvision vs prediction
- 1.99°
- Zoom steps
- 44
Aircraft & route
- Flight
- SKW5452
- Registration
- N156SY
- Type
- Embraer EMB-175 LR
- Airline
- SkyWest
- From
- RDD · Redding
- To
- SFO · San Francisco
- Ground speed
- 265 kt
- Altitude at closest
- 11,225 ft
- Vertical rate
- -64 ft/min
- Category
- A3
- ICAO hex
- a0e220
Pass geometry
- Max elevation
- 69.9°
- Elevation at start → end
- 41.1° → 28.4°
- Azimuth at start → end
- 339° NNW → 130° SE
- Closest-approach azimuth
- 50° NE
- Minimum slant range
- 3.7 km
- Heading at closest
- 140° SE
- Aspect at closest
- side-on (90°)
- Turn
- straight (7°)
- Departure
- No
- Zenith pass
- No
- Dead-zone wrap
- No
- Duration
- 1:12 (72.0 s)
- Lock
- 79%
Build & tuning
The tracker build that flew this pass and the live settings that mattered, so passes can be compared across changes.
- Build
- 2026-10-13h — no zoom-focus direct while the lens is still zooming (wedge race)
- Commit
- 181d1fa+wip
- Node
- v22.22.2
- Camera
- TONGVEO 20x PTZ · 1920×1080 @ 30 fps
- Clip
- 36.0 MB · 72.0 s · offset -1.2 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