CAL004 China Airlines
Airbus A350 941 · B-18910
· 1:10Quality 92side-onturned right 18°
Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −68%). 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
- 90%
- First lockfrom target selected
- 4.5 s
- Centring, medianaz / el while locked
- 0.13° / 0.15°
- Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
- 0.44° / 0.39°
- Tightest field of viewhorizontal
- 3.4°
- Time to 8°from first lock
- 6.0 s
- Time to tightestfrom first lock
- 54.5 s
- Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
- 56.8 s
- Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
- 0.17° / 0.20°
- Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
- 1.06° / 1.05°
- Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
- 0.0
- Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
- 2.75°
- Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
- 1.53°
- Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
- 0.57°
- Largest correctionvision vs prediction
- 2.39°
- Zoom steps
- 28
Aircraft & route
- Flight
- CAL004
- Registration
- B-18910
- Type
- Airbus A350 941
- Airline
- China Airlines
- From
- —
- To
- —
- Ground speed
- 276 kt
- Altitude at closest
- 11,375 ft
- Vertical rate
- 0 ft/min
- Category
- A5
- ICAO hex
- 89912e
Pass geometry
- Max elevation
- 70.5°
- Elevation at start → end
- 70.5° → 18.3°
- Azimuth at start → end
- 54° NE → 139° SE
- Closest-approach azimuth
- 54° NE
- Minimum slant range
- 3.7 km
- Heading at closest
- 140° SE
- Aspect at closest
- side-on (86°)
- Turn
- turned right 18°
- Departure
- No
- Zenith pass
- No
- Dead-zone wrap
- No
- Duration
- 1:10 (69.7 s)
- Lock
- 90%
Build & tuning
The tracker build that flew this pass and the live settings that mattered, so passes can be compared across changes.
- Build
- 2026-10-14n — vision skyline mask 31x cheaper (loop back to ~15 Hz)
- Commit
- af2a83e
- Node
- v22.22.2
- Camera
- TONGVEO 20x PTZ · 1920×1080 @ 30 fps
- Clip
- 31.5 MB · 70.0 s · offset -1.1 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
- -0.16
- 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