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EJA781 NetJets

Bombardier Challenger 350 · N781QS

· 1:08Quality 78lost lockside-onturned left 41°Overhead

3D replay

Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −52%). 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
68%
First lockfrom target selected
10.8 s
Centring, medianaz / el while locked
0.15° / 0.24°
Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
1.34° / 0.83°
Tightest field of viewhorizontal
4.1°
Time to 8°from first lock
3.3 s
Time to tightestfrom first lock
5.7 s
Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
38.9 s
Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
0.17° / 0.34°
Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
0.76° / 1.89°
Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
1.0
Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
3.39°
Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
3.25°
Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
1.00°
Largest correctionvision vs prediction
3.26°
Zoom steps
72

Aircraft & route

Flight
EJA781
Registration
N781QS
Type
Bombardier Challenger 350
Airline
NetJets
From
—
To
—
Ground speed
369 kt
Altitude at closest
15,050 ft
Vertical rate
—
Category
A2
ICAO hex
aa95ac

Pass geometry

Max elevation
61.1°
Elevation at start → end
33.7° → 37.6°
Azimuth at start → end
312° NW → 160° SSE
Closest-approach azimuth
248° WSW
Minimum slant range
5.2 km
Heading at closest
160° SSE
Aspect at closest
side-on (87°)
Turn
turned left 41°
Departure
Yes — climbing out after take-off
Zenith pass
Yes — camera flipped over the top
Dead-zone wrap
No
Duration
1:08 (67.5 s)
Lock
68%

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
15.4 MB · 67.0 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

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