QXE2493 Horizon Air
Embraer EMB-175 LR · N635QX · SFO → LAX
· 1:34Quality 85side-onturned 21°Dead-zone wrap
Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −69%). 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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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
- 73%
- First lockfrom target selected
- 7.8 s
- Centring, medianaz / el while locked
- 0.79° / 0.36°
- Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
- 4.26° / 1.06°
- Tightest field of viewhorizontal
- 3.8°
- Time to 8°from first lock
- 8.2 s
- Time to tightestfrom first lock
- 85.9 s
- Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
- 12.7 s
- Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
- 0.22° / 0.26°
- Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
- 1.30° / 1.17°
- Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
- 0.0
- Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
- 2.08°
- Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
- 2.19°
- Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
- 1.13°
- Largest correctionvision vs prediction
- 1.43°
- Zoom steps
- 71
Aircraft & route
- Flight
- QXE2493
- Registration
- N635QX
- Type
- Embraer EMB-175 LR
- Airline
- Horizon Air
- From
- SFO · San Francisco
- To
- LAX · Los Angeles
- Ground speed
- 296 kt
- Altitude at closest
- 8,050 ft
- Vertical rate
- +2,816 ft/min
- Category
- A3
- ICAO hex
- a851c3
Pass geometry
- Max elevation
- 42.6°
- Elevation at start → end
- 19.2° → 18.9°
- Azimuth at start → end
- 340° NNW → 205° SSW
- Closest-approach azimuth
- 271° W
- Minimum slant range
- 3.7 km
- Heading at closest
- 186° S
- Aspect at closest
- side-on (85°)
- Turn
- turned 21°
- Departure
- Yes — climbing out after take-off
- Zenith pass
- No
- Dead-zone wrap
- Yes — pan pre-positioned across the stop
- Duration
- 1:34 (94.2 s)
- Lock
- 73%
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
- 47.5 MB · 95.0 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
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