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EVA028 EVA Air

Boeing 777 35EER · B-16716

· 1:42Quality 82side-onturned right 23°

3D replay

Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −65%). 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
94%
First lockfrom target selected
6.4 s
Centring, medianaz / el while locked
0.14° / 0.15°
Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
0.67° / 0.68°
Tightest field of viewhorizontal
3.4°
Time to 8°from first lock
6.0 s
Time to tightestfrom first lock
71.9 s
Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
71.8 s
Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
0.28° / 0.25°
Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
2.54° / 1.81°
Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
0.0
Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
4.94°
Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
2.19°
Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
0.77°
Largest correctionvision vs prediction
2.60°
Zoom steps
47

Aircraft & route

Flight
EVA028
Registration
B-16716
Type
Boeing 777 35EER
Airline
EVA Air
From
—
To
—
Ground speed
296 kt
Altitude at closest
11,500 ft
Vertical rate
0 ft/min
Category
A5
ICAO hex
8990de

Pass geometry

Max elevation
70.3°
Elevation at start → end
48.0° → 15.1°
Azimuth at start → end
343° NNW → 144° SE
Closest-approach azimuth
49° NE
Minimum slant range
3.7 km
Heading at closest
140° SE
Aspect at closest
side-on (89°)
Turn
turned right 23°
Departure
No
Zenith pass
No
Dead-zone wrap
No
Duration
1:42 (101.8 s)
Lock
94%

Build & tuning

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

Build
2026-10-16i — lock-first on; shadow silhouette sky-masked
Commit
5610684
Node
v22.22.2
Camera
TONGVEO 20x PTZ · 1920×1080 @ 30 fps
Clip
9.5 MB · 102.0 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
-0.19
correctionSlewDps
2.5
kp
1
ki
0.6

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