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SKW5806 SkyWest

Embraer EMB-175 LR · N156SY · SFO → ?

· 1:21Quality 82side-onturned 22°Dead-zone wrap

3D replay

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
69%
First lockfrom target selected
6.1 s
Centring, medianaz / el while locked
0.62° / 0.14°
Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
3.25° / 0.45°
Tightest field of viewhorizontal
3.4°
Time to 8°from first lock
8.4 s
Time to tightestfrom first lock
73.0 s
Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
38.4 s
Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
0.83° / 0.16°
Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
3.53° / 0.85°
Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
0.3
Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
3.71°
Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
1.41°
Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
1.03°
Largest correctionvision vs prediction
0.82°
Zoom steps
68

Aircraft & route

Flight
SKW5806
Registration
N156SY
Type
Embraer EMB-175 LR
Airline
SkyWest
From
SFO
To
—
Ground speed
294 kt
Altitude at closest
8,925 ft
Vertical rate
+2,496 ft/min
Category
A3
ICAO hex
a0e220

Pass geometry

Max elevation
32.8°
Elevation at start → end
25.3° → 17.3°
Azimuth at start → end
298° WNW → 203° SSW
Closest-approach azimuth
256° WSW
Minimum slant range
5.0 km
Heading at closest
173° S
Aspect at closest
side-on (83°)
Turn
turned 22°
Departure
Yes — climbing out after take-off
Zenith pass
No
Dead-zone wrap
Yes — pan pre-positioned across the stop
Duration
1:21 (81.1 s)
Lock
69%

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
39.5 MB · 81.0 s · offset -1.0 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

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