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N71TG

Epic Aircraft Company Epic E1000 · N71TG

· 2:21Quality 73lost lockside-on

3D replay

Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −76%). 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
53%
First lockfrom target selected
25.3 s
Centring, medianaz / el while locked
0.17° / 0.23°
Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
2.00° / 1.58°
Tightest field of viewhorizontal
3.4°
Time to 8°from first lock
4.8 s
Time to tightestfrom first lock
40.3 s
Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
63.6 s
Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
0.25° / 0.30°
Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
1.72° / 1.29°
Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
2.2
Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
1.32°
Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
2.00°
Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
0.71°
Largest correctionvision vs prediction
1.19°
Zoom steps
75

Aircraft & route

Flight
N71TG
Registration
N71TG
Type
Epic Aircraft Company Epic E1000 (EPIC)
Airline
—
From
—
To
—
Ground speed
156 kt
Altitude at closest
1,475 ft
Vertical rate
+2,880 ft/min
Category
A1
ICAO hex
a97b64

Pass geometry

Max elevation
79.1°
Elevation at start → end
0.1° → 12.1°
Azimuth at start → end
116° ESE → 298° WNW
Closest-approach azimuth
23° NNE
Minimum slant range
477 m
Heading at closest
296° WNW
Aspect at closest
side-on (86°)
Turn
straight (14°)
Departure
Yes — climbing out after take-off
Zenith pass
No
Dead-zone wrap
No
Duration
2:21 (140.5 s)
Lock
53%

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
68.2 MB · 136.1 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
-0.03
correctionSlewDps
2.5
kp
1
ki
0.6

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