POD3
Bombardier BD-100-1A10 · N251FT
· 1:11Quality 92side-on
Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −75%). 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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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
- 5.4 s
- Centring, medianaz / el while locked
- 0.24° / 0.34°
- Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
- 1.33° / 2.35°
- Tightest field of viewhorizontal
- 3.4°
- Time to 8°from first lock
- 14.8 s
- Time to tightestfrom first lock
- 41.7 s
- Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
- 46.4 s
- Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
- 0.26° / 0.41°
- Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
- 1.12° / 1.80°
- Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
- 2.4
- Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
- 0.86°
- Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
- 3.19°
- Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
- 0.42°
- Largest correctionvision vs prediction
- 3.56°
- Zoom steps
- 43
Aircraft & route
- Flight
- POD3
- Registration
- N251FT
- Type
- Bombardier BD-100-1A10
- Airline
- —
- From
- —
- To
- —
- Ground speed
- 210 kt
- Altitude at closest
- 1,675 ft
- Vertical rate
- —
- Category
- A2
- ICAO hex
- a25bc4
Pass geometry
- Max elevation
- 79.5°
- Elevation at start → end
- 14.8° → 11.8°
- Azimuth at start → end
- 116° ESE → 297° WNW
- Closest-approach azimuth
- 197° SSW
- Minimum slant range
- 504 m
- Heading at closest
- 291° WNW
- Aspect at closest
- side-on (87°)
- Turn
- straight (13°)
- Departure
- Yes — climbing out after take-off
- Zenith pass
- No
- Dead-zone wrap
- No
- Duration
- 1:11 (70.6 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
- 2026-10-15q — drive speed latched at the lens position; measured speed bytes only; auto-cal keeps gains
- Commit
- 44f2d6a
- Node
- v22.22.2
- Camera
- TONGVEO 20x PTZ · 1920×1080 @ 30 fps
- Clip
- 35.0 MB · 70.0 s · offset -0.8 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
- -0.11
- 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