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TAI563 Avianca El Salvador

Airbus A320 251NSL · N762AV · SFO → SAL

· 0:54Quality 81clip shortside-onturned left 18°

3D replay

Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −79%). 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
43%
First lockfrom target selected
23.3 s
Centring, medianaz / el while locked
0.09° / 0.12°
Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
0.26° / 0.27°
Tightest field of viewhorizontal
4.1°
Time to 8°from first lock
11.2 s
Time to tightestfrom first lock
14.2 s
Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
17.7 s
Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
0.11° / 0.16°
Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
0.58° / 0.69°
Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
0.0
Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
1.99°
Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
0.88°
Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
0.71°
Largest correctionvision vs prediction
0.84°
Zoom steps
67

Aircraft & route

Flight
TAI563
Registration
N762AV
Type
Airbus A320 251NSL
Airline
Avianca El Salvador
From
SFO · San Francisco
To
SAL · San Salvador (San Luis Talpa)
Ground speed
287 kt
Altitude at closest
10,625 ft
Vertical rate
+2,944 ft/min
Category
A3
ICAO hex
aa490a

Pass geometry

Max elevation
24.4°
Elevation at start → end
22.0° → 21.8°
Azimuth at start → end
273° W → 215° SW
Closest-approach azimuth
241° WSW
Minimum slant range
7.6 km
Heading at closest
164° SSE
Aspect at closest
side-on (77°)
Turn
turned left 18°
Departure
Yes — climbing out after take-off
Zenith pass
No
Dead-zone wrap
No
Duration
0:54 (54.1 s)
Lock
43%

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
30.0 MB · 38.3 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
-0.1
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