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ACA568 Air Canada

Airbus A220 300 · C-GVUO · YVR → SFO

· 2:13Quality 85lost lockside-on

3D replay

Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −74%). 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
88%
First lockfrom target selected
7.0 s
Centring, medianaz / el while locked
0.13° / 0.12°
Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
0.37° / 0.30°
Tightest field of viewhorizontal
3.4°
Time to 8°from first lock
3.8 s
Time to tightestfrom first lock
107.9 s
Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
113.8 s
Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
0.20° / 0.17°
Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
2.04° / 1.24°
Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
0.2
Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
2.94°
Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
1.13°
Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
0.53°
Largest correctionvision vs prediction
1.71°
Zoom steps
34

Aircraft & route

Flight
ACA568
Registration
C-GVUO
Type
Airbus A220 300
Airline
Air Canada
From
YVR · Vancouver
To
SFO · San Francisco
Ground speed
263 kt
Altitude at closest
11,475 ft
Vertical rate
-448 ft/min
Category
A3
ICAO hex
c07e33

Pass geometry

Max elevation
27.0°
Elevation at start → end
18.1° → 13.8°
Azimuth at start → end
329° NNW → 73° ENE
Closest-approach azimuth
17° NNE
Minimum slant range
7.7 km
Heading at closest
108° ESE
Aspect at closest
side-on (88°)
Turn
straight (11°)
Departure
No
Zenith pass
No
Dead-zone wrap
No
Duration
2:13 (133.1 s)
Lock
88%

Build & tuning

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

Build
2026-10-16h — lock-first association on (A/B −40% tele gaps)
Commit
dfc3684
Node
v22.22.2
Camera
TONGVEO 20x PTZ · 1920×1080 @ 30 fps
Clip
66.5 MB · 133.0 s · offset -1.5 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
-0.06
correctionSlewDps
2.5
kp
1
ki
0.6

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