QTR73V Qatar Airways
Airbus A350 1041 · A7-ANK · SFO → DOH
· 0:50Quality 73lens stuckside-on
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
- 61%
- First lockfrom target selected
- 16.8 s
- Centring, medianaz / el while locked
- 0.79° / 0.74°
- Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
- 4.52° / 5.54°
- Tightest field of viewhorizontal
- 8.3°
- Time to 8°from first lock
- —
- Time to tightestfrom first lock
- 30.9 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
- 1.53°
- Largest correctionvision vs prediction
- 2.84°
- Zoom steps
- 30
Aircraft & route
- Flight
- QTR73V
- Registration
- A7-ANK
- Type
- Airbus A350 1041
- Airline
- Qatar Airways
- From
- SFO · San Francisco
- To
- DOH · Doha
- Ground speed
- 176 kt
- Altitude at closest
- 1,400 ft
- Vertical rate
- +1,088 ft/min
- Category
- A5
- ICAO hex
- 06a127
Pass geometry
- Max elevation
- 74.2°
- Elevation at start → end
- 2.1° → 12.9°
- Azimuth at start → end
- 116° ESE → 301° WNW
- Closest-approach azimuth
- 29° NNE
- Minimum slant range
- 475 m
- Heading at closest
- 299° WNW
- Aspect at closest
- side-on (89°)
- Turn
- straight (0°)
- Departure
- Yes — climbing out after take-off
- Zenith pass
- No
- Dead-zone wrap
- No
- Duration
- 0:50 (49.6 s)
- Lock
- 61%
Build & tuning
The tracker build that flew this pass and the live settings that mattered, so passes can be compared across changes.
- Build
- 2026-10-13j — full 3.4 deg tele for slow planes (limit only above 0.5 deg/s)
- Commit
- 181d1fa+wip
- Node
- v22.22.2
- Camera
- TONGVEO 20x PTZ · 1920×1080 @ 30 fps
- Clip
- 24.7 MB · 50.0 s · offset -1.7 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