ACA568 Air Canada
YVR → SFO
· 2:44Quality 94side-onturned right 16°
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.
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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
- 88%
- First lockfrom target selected
- 10.3 s
- Centring, medianaz / el while locked
- 0.11° / 0.13°
- Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
- 0.43° / 0.30°
- Tightest field of viewhorizontal
- 3.4°
- Time to 8°from first lock
- 3.3 s
- Time to tightestfrom first lock
- 102.3 s
- Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
- 131.2 s
- Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
- 0.18° / 0.17°
- Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
- 1.67° / 1.02°
- Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
- 0.4
- Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
- 5.45°
- Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
- 2.12°
- Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
- 0.54°
- Largest correctionvision vs prediction
- 1.77°
- Zoom steps
- 44
Aircraft & route
- Flight
- ACA568
- Registration
- —
- Type
- —
- Airline
- Air Canada
- From
- YVR · Vancouver
- To
- SFO · San Francisco
- Ground speed
- 284 kt
- Altitude at closest
- 11,450 ft
- Vertical rate
- -64 ft/min
- Category
- A3
- ICAO hex
- c012aa
Pass geometry
- Max elevation
- 70.4°
- Elevation at start → end
- 22.2° → 13.5°
- Azimuth at start → end
- 328° NNW → 145° 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 right 16°
- Departure
- No
- Zenith pass
- No
- Dead-zone wrap
- No
- Duration
- 2:44 (163.7 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
- 2026-10-15t — vertical rate falls back to geom_rate (server)
- Commit
- 218644c
- Node
- v22.22.2
- Camera
- TONGVEO 20x PTZ · 1920×1080 @ 30 fps
- Clip
- 81.6 MB · 163.0 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
This clip and poster are © Skylight (Cameron Paczek): free for non-commercial use with credit to skylightceiling.com, not MIT. License