N66978
Cessna 172P · N66978 · UKI → SFO
· 1:03Quality 90clip shortnose/tailturned right 33°
Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −67%). 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
- 89%
- First lockfrom target selected
- 3.9 s
- Centring, medianaz / el while locked
- 0.32° / 0.42°
- Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
- 1.92° / 1.99°
- Tightest field of viewhorizontal
- 4.1°
- Time to 8°from first lock
- 3.3 s
- Time to tightestfrom first lock
- 5.3 s
- Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
- 30.7 s
- Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
- 0.64° / 0.42°
- Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
- 2.56° / 1.69°
- Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
- 0.7
- Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
- 5.44°
- Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
- 4.27°
- Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
- 1.22°
- Largest correctionvision vs prediction
- 3.89°
- Zoom steps
- 56
Aircraft & route
- Flight
- N66978
- Registration
- N66978
- Type
- Cessna 172P
- Airline
- —
- From
- UKI · Ukiah
- To
- SFO · Portland
- Ground speed
- 102 kt
- Altitude at closest
- 1,950 ft
- Vertical rate
- 0 ft/min
- Category
- A1
- ICAO hex
- a8d916
Pass geometry
- Max elevation
- 84.5°
- Elevation at start → end
- 22.8° → 16.0°
- Azimuth at start → end
- 175° S → 5° N
- Closest-approach azimuth
- 266° W
- Minimum slant range
- 615 m
- Heading at closest
- 358° N
- Aspect at closest
- nose/tail (15°)
- Turn
- turned right 33°
- Departure
- No
- Zenith pass
- No
- Dead-zone wrap
- No
- Duration
- 1:03 (63.0 s)
- Lock
- 89%
Build & tuning
The tracker build that flew this pass and the live settings that mattered, so passes can be compared across changes.
- Build
- 2026-10-16e — A/B mountPrior + candidate diagnostics
- Commit
- ffe4b92
- Node
- v22.22.2
- Camera
- TONGVEO 20x PTZ · 1920×1080 @ 30 fps
- Clip
- 33.3 MB · 32.4 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
- -0.1
- 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