VJA350 Vista America
Bombardier Challenger 350 · N350VJ
· 1:41Quality 78lost lockside-onOverhead
Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −74%). Download
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Where the aircraft sat in the frame, second by second. Click the chart to jump the video there.
—FOV —az —el —pose —
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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
- 62%
- First lockfrom target selected
- 22.8 s
- Centring, medianaz / el while locked
- 0.23° / 0.28°
- Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
- 0.95° / 1.56°
- Tightest field of viewhorizontal
- 3.4°
- Time to 8°from first lock
- 8.7 s
- Time to tightestfrom first lock
- 50.4 s
- Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
- 51.6 s
- Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
- 0.25° / 0.37°
- Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
- 1.43° / 2.77°
- Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
- 4.1
- Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
- 1.65°
- Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
- 7.85°
- Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
- 0.53°
- Largest correctionvision vs prediction
- 1.58°
- Zoom steps
- 89
Aircraft & route
- Flight
- VJA350
- Registration
- N350VJ
- Type
- Bombardier Challenger 350 (CL35)
- Airline
- Vista America
- From
- —
- To
- —
- Ground speed
- 203 kt
- Altitude at closest
- 2,025 ft
- Vertical rate
- +2,496 ft/min
- Category
- A2
- ICAO hex
- a3e6b1
Pass geometry
- Max elevation
- 75.3°
- Elevation at start → end
- -0.2° → 12.0°
- Azimuth at start → end
- 120° ESE → 297° WNW
- Closest-approach azimuth
- 209° SSW
- Minimum slant range
- 659 m
- Heading at closest
- 298° WNW
- Aspect at closest
- side-on (89°)
- Turn
- straight (0°)
- Departure
- Yes — climbing out after take-off
- Zenith pass
- Yes — camera flipped over the top
- Dead-zone wrap
- No
- Duration
- 1:41 (101.0 s)
- Lock
- 62%
Build & tuning
The tracker build that flew this pass and the live settings that mattered, so passes can be compared across changes.
- Build
- 2026-10-16c — mount prior carried to the next target (silhouette reach reverted)
- Commit
- 8649c7d
- Node
- v22.22.2
- Camera
- TONGVEO 20x PTZ · 1920×1080 @ 30 fps
- Clip
- 50.5 MB · 101.0 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
This clip and poster are © Skylight (Cameron Paczek): free for non-commercial use with credit to skylightceiling.com, not MIT. License