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SKW5938 SkyWest

Embraer EMB-175 LR · N145SY · FCA → SFO

· 1:17Quality 78lost lockside-on

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
8.6 s
Centring, medianaz / el while locked
0.15° / 0.15°
Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
0.45° / 0.32°
Tightest field of viewhorizontal
4.0°
Time to 8°from first lock
3.1 s
Time to tightestfrom first lock
—
Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
65.1 s
Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
0.21° / 0.17°
Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
1.11° / 0.93°
Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
0.0
Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
16.48°
Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
2.44°
Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
1.12°
Largest correctionvision vs prediction
3.58°
Zoom steps
15

Aircraft & route

Flight
SKW5938
Registration
N145SY
Type
Embraer EMB-175 LR
Airline
SkyWest
From
FCA · Kalispell
To
SFO · San Francisco
Ground speed
247 kt
Altitude at closest
11,525 ft
Vertical rate
0 ft/min
Category
A3
ICAO hex
a0b6ea

Pass geometry

Max elevation
70.4°
Elevation at start → end
30.8° → 40.1°
Azimuth at start → end
332° NNW → 122° ESE
Closest-approach azimuth
50° NE
Minimum slant range
3.7 km
Heading at closest
140° SE
Aspect at closest
side-on (90°)
Turn
straight (0°)
Departure
No
Zenith pass
No
Dead-zone wrap
No
Duration
1:17 (77.1 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
38.5 MB · 77.0 s · offset -1.3 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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