EJM450
Gulfstream Aerospace G450 · N450QS
· 0:54Quality 82nose/tailOverhead
Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −78%). 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
- 52%
- First lockfrom target selected
- 12.2 s
- Centring, medianaz / el while locked
- 0.32° / 0.41°
- Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
- 2.64° / 3.14°
- Tightest field of viewhorizontal
- 3.4°
- Time to 8°from first lock
- 23.4 s
- Time to tightestfrom first lock
- 34.3 s
- Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
- 9.8 s
- Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
- 0.23° / 0.18°
- Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
- 0.81° / 0.72°
- Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
- 4.1
- Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
- 1.03°
- Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
- 0.84°
- Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
- 1.06°
- Largest correctionvision vs prediction
- 2.23°
- Zoom steps
- 34
Aircraft & route
- Flight
- EJM450
- Registration
- N450QS
- Type
- Gulfstream Aerospace G450 (GLF4)
- Airline
- —
- From
- —
- To
- —
- Ground speed
- 202 kt
- Altitude at closest
- 1,225 ft
- Vertical rate
- +2,688 ft/min
- Category
- A2
- ICAO hex
- a5738b
Pass geometry
- Max elevation
- 83.2°
- Elevation at start → end
- 0.7° → 13.8°
- Azimuth at start → end
- 115° ESE → 297° WNW
- Closest-approach azimuth
- 28° NNE
- Minimum slant range
- 397 m
- Heading at closest
- 295° WNW
- Aspect at closest
- nose/tail (7°)
- Turn
- straight (5°)
- Departure
- Yes — climbing out after take-off
- Zenith pass
- Yes — camera flipped over the top
- Dead-zone wrap
- No
- Duration
- 0:54 (53.7 s)
- Lock
- 52%
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
- 27.0 MB · 54.0 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