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JLG806

Raytheon Aircraft Company 125 800XP · N806GJ

· 0:38Quality 50lost lockside-on

3D replay

Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −75%). Download

Trace

Where the aircraft sat in the frame, second by second. Click the chart to jump the video there.

—FOV —az —el —pose —
Lock

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
21%
First lockfrom target selected
30.6 s
Centring, medianaz / el while locked
0.12° / 0.11°
Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
0.41° / 0.58°
Tightest field of viewhorizontal
4.1°
Time to 8°from first lock
2.6 s
Time to tightestfrom first lock
5.1 s
Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
2.6 s
Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
0.08° / 0.10°
Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
0.34° / 0.31°
Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
0.0
Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
1.87°
Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
0.72°
Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
0.94°
Largest correctionvision vs prediction
0.40°
Zoom steps
31

Aircraft & route

Flight
JLG806
Registration
N806GJ
Type
Raytheon Aircraft Company 125 800XP
Airline
—
From
—
To
—
Ground speed
291 kt
Altitude at closest
9,075 ft
Vertical rate
+3,008 ft/min
Category
A2
ICAO hex
aaf8c6

Pass geometry

Max elevation
23.3°
Elevation at start → end
19.1° → 22.7°
Azimuth at start → end
345° NNW → 296° WNW
Closest-approach azimuth
309° NW
Minimum slant range
6.8 km
Heading at closest
232° SW
Aspect at closest
side-on (77°)
Turn
straight (0°)
Departure
Yes — climbing out after take-off
Zenith pass
No
Dead-zone wrap
No
Duration
0:38 (38.1 s)
Lock
21%

Build & tuning

The tracker build that flew this pass and the live settings that mattered, so passes can be compared across changes.

Build
2026-10-14l — vision lock coasts with the plane; a zoom ends a focus drive
Commit
f5b573a
Node
v22.22.2
Camera
TONGVEO 20x PTZ · 1920×1080 @ 30 fps
Clip
19.0 MB · 38.0 s · offset -1.4 s
pursuit
velocity
maxLeadSec
3
panLatencySec
0.6
tiltLatencySec
0.4
rippleDeg
0.5
rippleTeleDeg
0.25
maxSpeedStepFwps
0.45
speedReachFrac
0.8
lockedSigmaDeg
0.35
sigmaGrowthDps
0.1
aimLeadSec
-0.22
correctionSlewDps
2.5
kp
1
ki
0.6

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