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SAS935 Scandinavian Airlines System

Airbus A350 941 · SE-RSC · CPH → SFO

· 2:40Quality 92side-onturned right 19°

3D replay

Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −72%). 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
89%
First lockfrom target selected
10.8 s
Centring, medianaz / el while locked
0.13° / 0.13°
Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
0.41° / 0.33°
Tightest field of viewhorizontal
3.4°
Time to 8°from first lock
4.6 s
Time to tightestfrom first lock
11.6 s
Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
106.9 s
Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
0.21° / 0.17°
Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
2.30° / 1.14°
Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
0.6
Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
8.28°
Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
3.98°
Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
0.53°
Largest correctionvision vs prediction
0.93°
Zoom steps
32

Aircraft & route

Flight
SAS935
Registration
SE-RSC
Type
Airbus A350 941
Airline
Scandinavian Airlines System
From
CPH · Copenhagen
To
SFO · San Francisco
Ground speed
249 kt
Altitude at closest
11,425 ft
Vertical rate
-448 ft/min
Category
A5
ICAO hex
4aca63

Pass geometry

Max elevation
70.3°
Elevation at start → end
17.7° → 16.5°
Azimuth at start → end
326° NNW → 139° SE
Closest-approach azimuth
49° NE
Minimum slant range
3.7 km
Heading at closest
140° SE
Aspect at closest
side-on (90°)
Turn
turned right 19°
Departure
No
Zenith pass
No
Dead-zone wrap
No
Duration
2:40 (159.9 s)
Lock
89%

Build & tuning

The tracker build that flew this pass and the live settings that mattered, so passes can be compared across changes.

Build
2026-10-15r — keep the target past the sun; paced speed re-latch
Commit
05024bb
Node
v22.22.2
Camera
TONGVEO 20x PTZ · 1920×1080 @ 30 fps
Clip
78.7 MB · 159.0 s · offset -0.4 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
-0.27
correctionSlewDps
2.5
kp
1
ki
0.6

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