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VJA548 Vista America

Bombardier Challenger 300 · N548XJ

· 0:51Quality 80side-onturned left 18°

3D replay

Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −77%). 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
79%
First lockfrom target selected
10.5 s
Centring, medianaz / el while locked
0.09° / 0.12°
Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
0.21° / 0.33°
Tightest field of viewhorizontal
4.1°
Time to 8°from first lock
3.5 s
Time to tightestfrom first lock
5.2 s
Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
34.9 s
Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
0.12° / 0.21°
Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
0.68° / 1.35°
Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
0.0
Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
1.49°
Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
1.33°
Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
0.62°
Largest correctionvision vs prediction
0.50°
Zoom steps
35

Aircraft & route

Flight
VJA548
Registration
N548XJ
Type
Bombardier Challenger 300
Airline
Vista America
From
—
To
—
Ground speed
303 kt
Altitude at closest
11,050 ft
Vertical rate
—
Category
A2
ICAO hex
a6f7ba

Pass geometry

Max elevation
23.2°
Elevation at start → end
23.2° → 21.1°
Azimuth at start → end
288° WNW → 240° WSW
Closest-approach azimuth
288° WNW
Minimum slant range
8.6 km
Heading at closest
207° SSW
Aspect at closest
side-on (81°)
Turn
turned left 18°
Departure
Yes — climbing out after take-off
Zenith pass
No
Dead-zone wrap
No
Duration
0:51 (50.5 s)
Lock
79%

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
23.4 MB · 49.0 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

This clip and poster are © Skylight (Cameron Paczek): free for non-commercial use with credit to skylightceiling.com, not MIT. License