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JSX183 JSX Air

Embraer EMB-145LR · N918JX · OAK → BUR

· 1:49Quality 87side-onturned left 30°

3D replay

Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −75%). 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
86%
First lockfrom target selected
13.6 s
Centring, medianaz / el while locked
0.18° / 0.15°
Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
0.44° / 0.37°
Tightest field of viewhorizontal
3.4°
Time to 8°from first lock
4.5 s
Time to tightestfrom first lock
—
Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
73.8 s
Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
0.22° / 0.20°
Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
1.44° / 1.11°
Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
0.0
Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
3.58°
Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
2.90°
Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
0.97°
Largest correctionvision vs prediction
2.80°
Zoom steps
53

Aircraft & route

Flight
JSX183
Registration
N918JX
Type
Embraer EMB-145LR
Airline
JSX Air
From
OAK · Oakland
To
BUR · Burbank
Ground speed
275 kt
Altitude at closest
9,775 ft
Vertical rate
+2,304 ft/min
Category
A2
ICAO hex
acb541

Pass geometry

Max elevation
60.6°
Elevation at start → end
20.1° → 19.6°
Azimuth at start → end
350° N → 182° S
Closest-approach azimuth
273° W
Minimum slant range
3.4 km
Heading at closest
186° S
Aspect at closest
side-on (87°)
Turn
turned left 30°
Departure
Yes — climbing out after take-off
Zenith pass
No
Dead-zone wrap
No
Duration
1:49 (109.1 s)
Lock
86%

Build & tuning

The tracker build that flew this pass and the live settings that mattered, so passes can be compared across changes.

Build
2026-10-16f — A/B mountPrior, cand diagnostics, clip-short flag
Commit
3ea7ff5
Node
v22.22.2
Camera
TONGVEO 20x PTZ · 1920×1080 @ 30 fps
Clip
54.5 MB · 109.0 s · offset -1.2 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

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