N2FR
Mooney M20K · N2FR · PAO → SFO
· 1:23Quality 74lost lockside-onturned right 129°Dead-zone wrap
Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −66%). 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
- 67%
- First lockfrom target selected
- 9.7 s
- Centring, medianaz / el while locked
- 0.34° / 0.22°
- Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
- 1.25° / 0.83°
- Tightest field of viewhorizontal
- 4.1°
- Time to 8°from first lock
- 3.2 s
- Time to tightestfrom first lock
- 6.1 s
- Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
- 36.4 s
- Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
- 0.31° / 0.26°
- Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
- 1.81° / 1.74°
- Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
- 1.4
- Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
- 15.37°
- Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
- 3.13°
- Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
- 1.65°
- Largest correctionvision vs prediction
- 1.75°
- Zoom steps
- 46
Aircraft & route
- Flight
- N2FR
- Registration
- N2FR
- Type
- Mooney M20K (M20P)
- Airline
- —
- From
- PAO · Palo Alto
- To
- SFO · Las Vegas
- Ground speed
- 131 kt
- Altitude at closest
- 2,050 ft
- Vertical rate
- 0 ft/min
- Category
- A1
- ICAO hex
- a18dde
Pass geometry
- Max elevation
- 30.3°
- Elevation at start → end
- 12.2° → 12.8°
- Azimuth at start → end
- 181° S → 31° NNE
- Closest-approach azimuth
- 103° ESE
- Minimum slant range
- 1.3 km
- Heading at closest
- 14° NNE
- Aspect at closest
- side-on (89°)
- Turn
- turned right 129°
- Departure
- No
- Zenith pass
- No
- Dead-zone wrap
- Yes — pan pre-positioned across the stop
- Duration
- 1:23 (83.2 s)
- Lock
- 67%
Build & tuning
The tracker build that flew this pass and the live settings that mattered, so passes can be compared across changes.
- Build
- 2026-10-16g — A/B lockFirst (mount prior on)
- Commit
- 9bdc356
- Node
- v22.22.2
- Camera
- TONGVEO 20x PTZ · 1920×1080 @ 30 fps
- Clip
- 42.0 MB · 84.0 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
- -0.15
- 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