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ROU1768 Air Canada Rouge

Boeing 737MAX 8 · C-GEHQ

· 2:22Quality 83lost lockside-onturned 28°

3D replay

Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −78%). 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
69%
First lockfrom target selected
4.8 s
Centring, medianaz / el while locked
0.15° / 0.10°
Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
0.30° / 0.25°
Tightest field of viewhorizontal
3.4°
Time to 8°from first lock
0.0 s
Time to tightestfrom first lock
83.5 s
Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
97.2 s
Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
0.16° / 0.15°
Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
1.54° / 0.82°
Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
0.6
Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
18.71°
Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
3.29°
Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
0.55°
Largest correctionvision vs prediction
0.79°
Zoom steps
39

Aircraft & route

Flight
ROU1768
Registration
C-GEHQ
Type
Boeing 737MAX 8
Airline
Air Canada Rouge
From
—
To
—
Ground speed
248 kt
Altitude at closest
11,450 ft
Vertical rate
-64 ft/min
Category
A3
ICAO hex
c04fff

Pass geometry

Max elevation
70.3°
Elevation at start → end
50.4° → 10.9°
Azimuth at start → end
346° NNW → 146° SE
Closest-approach azimuth
50° NE
Minimum slant range
3.7 km
Heading at closest
140° SE
Aspect at closest
side-on (90°)
Turn
turned 28°
Departure
No
Zenith pass
No
Dead-zone wrap
No
Duration
2:22 (142.2 s)
Lock
69%

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
70.2 MB · 141.0 s · offset -1.6 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
-0.21
correctionSlewDps
2.5
kp
1
ki
0.6

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