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EJA819 NetJets

Textron Aviation Citation Longitude · N819QS · SFO → ?

· 1:16Quality 79lost lockside-on

3D replay

Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −69%). 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
54%
First lockfrom target selected
7.8 s
Centring, medianaz / el while locked
0.22° / 0.51°
Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
1.73° / 2.18°
Tightest field of viewhorizontal
3.4°
Time to 8°from first lock
30.1 s
Time to tightestfrom first lock
49.5 s
Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
30.2 s
Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
0.22° / 0.36°
Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
1.57° / 1.58°
Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
2.6
Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
2.16°
Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
3.12°
Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
0.82°
Largest correctionvision vs prediction
2.24°
Zoom steps
62

Aircraft & route

Flight
EJA819
Registration
N819QS
Type
Textron Aviation Citation Longitude
Airline
NetJets
From
SFO
To
—
Ground speed
210 kt
Altitude at closest
1,600 ft
Vertical rate
+3,072 ft/min
Category
A2
ICAO hex
ab2c3a

Pass geometry

Max elevation
78.7°
Elevation at start → end
2.2° → 12.1°
Azimuth at start → end
116° ESE → 298° WNW
Closest-approach azimuth
18° NNE
Minimum slant range
518 m
Heading at closest
297° WNW
Aspect at closest
side-on (81°)
Turn
straight (2°)
Departure
Yes — climbing out after take-off
Zenith pass
No
Dead-zone wrap
No
Duration
1:16 (75.5 s)
Lock
54%

Build & tuning

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

Build
2026-10-16b — silhouette fallback reach 0.8° + multipart uploads
Commit
2ed816b
Node
v22.22.2
Camera
TONGVEO 20x PTZ · 1920×1080 @ 30 fps
Clip
37.5 MB · 75.0 s · offset -0.8 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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