VJA358 Vista America
Bombardier Challenger 350 · N358VJ
· 0:52Quality 73lost locknose/tail
Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −53%). Download
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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
- 65%
- First lockfrom target selected
- 12.2 s
- Centring, medianaz / el while locked
- 0.20° / 0.41°
- Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
- 1.28° / 1.35°
- Tightest field of viewhorizontal
- 3.4°
- Time to 8°from first lock
- 13.5 s
- Time to tightestfrom first lock
- 30.1 s
- Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
- 13.6 s
- Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
- 0.15° / 0.19°
- Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
- 0.53° / 0.70°
- Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
- 1.5
- Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
- 1.20°
- Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
- 1.15°
- Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
- 0.64°
- Largest correctionvision vs prediction
- 1.70°
- Zoom steps
- 37
Aircraft & route
- Flight
- VJA358
- Registration
- N358VJ
- Type
- Bombardier Challenger 350
- Airline
- Vista America
- From
- —
- To
- —
- Ground speed
- 178 kt
- Altitude at closest
- 1,475 ft
- Vertical rate
- —
- Category
- A2
- ICAO hex
- a40469
Pass geometry
- Max elevation
- 80.2°
- Elevation at start → end
- 24.2° → 13.3°
- Azimuth at start → end
- 111° ESE → 298° WNW
- Closest-approach azimuth
- 31° NNE
- Minimum slant range
- 437 m
- Heading at closest
- 297° WNW
- Aspect at closest
- nose/tail (10°)
- Turn
- straight (0°)
- Departure
- Yes — climbing out after take-off
- Zenith pass
- No
- Dead-zone wrap
- No
- Duration
- 0:52 (51.9 s)
- Lock
- 65%
Build & tuning
The tracker build that flew this pass and the live settings that mattered, so passes can be compared across changes.
- Build
- 2026-10-13l — log why the zoom ladder moved
- Commit
- 181d1fa+wip
- Node
- v22.22.2
- Camera
- TONGVEO 20x PTZ · 1920×1080 @ 30 fps
- Clip
- 26.1 MB · 52.0 s · offset -0.9 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