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SKW5433 SkyWest

Embraer EMB-175 LL · N621UX · SFO → ?

· 0:36Quality 89side-onturned left 27°

3D replay

Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −71%). 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
88%
First lockfrom target selected
4.5 s
Centring, medianaz / el while locked
0.17° / 0.18°
Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
1.18° / 0.71°
Tightest field of viewhorizontal
4.1°
Time to 8°from first lock
7.1 s
Time to tightestfrom first lock
10.8 s
Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
20.9 s
Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
0.14° / 0.24°
Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
0.69° / 1.07°
Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
0.0
Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
1.90°
Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
1.70°
Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
0.91°
Largest correctionvision vs prediction
1.33°
Zoom steps
36

Aircraft & route

Flight
SKW5433
Registration
N621UX
Type
Embraer EMB-175 LL
Airline
SkyWest
From
SFO
To
—
Ground speed
290 kt
Altitude at closest
7,400 ft
Vertical rate
+2,560 ft/min
Category
A3
ICAO hex
a81bcc

Pass geometry

Max elevation
18.4°
Elevation at start → end
16.8° → 18.4°
Azimuth at start → end
297° WNW → 252° WSW
Closest-approach azimuth
254° WSW
Minimum slant range
6.5 km
Heading at closest
178° S
Aspect at closest
side-on (77°)
Turn
turned left 27°
Departure
Yes — climbing out after take-off
Zenith pass
No
Dead-zone wrap
No
Duration
0:36 (35.5 s)
Lock
88%

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
16.0 MB · 32.6 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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