BAW5L British Airways
Airbus A380 841 · G-XLEL · LHR → SFO
· 2:18Quality 97side-onturned right 20°
Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −73%). 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
- 94%
- First lockfrom target selected
- 5.2 s
- Centring, medianaz / el while locked
- 0.12° / 0.12°
- Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
- 0.41° / 0.31°
- Tightest field of viewhorizontal
- 3.4°
- Time to 8°from first lock
- 5.3 s
- Time to tightestfrom first lock
- 73.0 s
- Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
- 99.5 s
- Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
- 0.16° / 0.19°
- Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
- 2.01° / 1.97°
- Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
- 0.4
- Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
- 6.27°
- Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
- 3.89°
- Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
- 0.39°
- Largest correctionvision vs prediction
- 0.60°
- Zoom steps
- 44
Aircraft & route
- Flight
- BAW5L
- Registration
- G-XLEL
- Type
- Airbus A380 841
- Airline
- British Airways
- From
- LHR · London
- To
- SFO · San Francisco
- Ground speed
- 261 kt
- Altitude at closest
- 11,825 ft
- Vertical rate
- -768 ft/min
- Category
- A5
- ICAO hex
- 406ec7
Pass geometry
- Max elevation
- 70.9°
- Elevation at start → end
- 54.4° → 10.8°
- Azimuth at start → end
- 348° NNW → 146° SE
- Closest-approach azimuth
- 49° NE
- Minimum slant range
- 3.8 km
- Heading at closest
- 140° SE
- Aspect at closest
- side-on (89°)
- Turn
- turned right 20°
- Departure
- No
- Zenith pass
- No
- Dead-zone wrap
- No
- Duration
- 2:18 (138.1 s)
- Lock
- 94%
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
- 69.0 MB · 138.0 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
- -0.03
- 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