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EJA637 NetJets

Textron Aviation Citation Latitude · N637QS · SFO → ?

· 1:08Quality 81lost lockside-on

3D replay

Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −75%). 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
56%
First lockfrom target selected
18.5 s
Centring, medianaz / el while locked
0.24° / 0.22°
Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
1.41° / 2.03°
Tightest field of viewhorizontal
3.4°
Time to 8°from first lock
18.3 s
Time to tightestfrom first lock
32.7 s
Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
28.8 s
Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
0.30° / 0.23°
Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
1.44° / 1.03°
Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
2.1
Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
1.56°
Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
1.49°
Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
0.94°
Largest correctionvision vs prediction
1.90°
Zoom steps
62

Aircraft & route

Flight
EJA637
Registration
N637QS
Type
Textron Aviation Citation Latitude (C68A)
Airline
NetJets
From
SFO
To
—
Ground speed
198 kt
Altitude at closest
1,100 ft
Vertical rate
+2,496 ft/min
Category
A2
ICAO hex
a8592c

Pass geometry

Max elevation
76.0°
Elevation at start → end
0.8° → 12.1°
Azimuth at start → end
116° ESE → 296° WNW
Closest-approach azimuth
30° NNE
Minimum slant range
382 m
Heading at closest
298° WNW
Aspect at closest
side-on (89°)
Turn
straight (9°)
Departure
Yes — climbing out after take-off
Zenith pass
No
Dead-zone wrap
No
Duration
1:08 (68.1 s)
Lock
56%

Build & tuning

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

Build
2026-10-15t — vertical rate falls back to geom_rate (server)
Commit
218644c
Node
v22.22.2
Camera
TONGVEO 20x PTZ · 1920×1080 @ 30 fps
Clip
34.0 MB · 68.0 s · offset -1.3 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
-0.09
correctionSlewDps
2.5
kp
1
ki
0.6

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