VJA533 Vista America
Bombardier Challenger 300 · N533XJ
· 1:21Quality 82lost lockside-on
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.
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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
- 60%
- First lockfrom target selected
- 13.6 s
- Centring, medianaz / el while locked
- 0.27° / 0.25°
- Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
- 2.31° / 1.98°
- Tightest field of viewhorizontal
- 3.4°
- Time to 8°from first lock
- 21.5 s
- Time to tightestfrom first lock
- 27.9 s
- Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
- 38.6 s
- Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
- 0.31° / 0.27°
- Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
- 2.24° / 1.31°
- Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
- 1.3
- Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
- 0.98°
- Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
- 1.20°
- Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
- 0.48°
- Largest correctionvision vs prediction
- 3.50°
- Zoom steps
- 74
Aircraft & route
- Flight
- VJA533
- Registration
- N533XJ
- Type
- Bombardier Challenger 300
- Airline
- Vista America
- From
- —
- To
- —
- Ground speed
- 188 kt
- Altitude at closest
- 1,050 ft
- Vertical rate
- +2,496 ft/min
- Category
- A2
- ICAO hex
- a6bda8
Pass geometry
- Max elevation
- 71.2°
- Elevation at start → end
- 2.3° → 12.5°
- Azimuth at start → end
- 115° ESE → 298° WNW
- Closest-approach azimuth
- 23° NNE
- Minimum slant range
- 382 m
- Heading at closest
- 298° WNW
- Aspect at closest
- side-on (85°)
- Turn
- straight (0°)
- Departure
- Yes — climbing out after take-off
- Zenith pass
- No
- Dead-zone wrap
- No
- Duration
- 1:21 (80.6 s)
- Lock
- 60%
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
- 40.0 MB · 80.0 s · offset -1.1 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