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SWA3346 Southwest Airlines

Boeing 737NG 7H4/W · N293WN

· 0:27Quality 80quartering

3D replay

Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −80%). 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
68%
First lockfrom target selected
8.2 s
Centring, medianaz / el while locked
0.18° / 0.13°
Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
0.68° / 0.50°
Tightest field of viewhorizontal
4.1°
Time to 8°from first lock
3.7 s
Time to tightestfrom first lock
6.0 s
Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
9.8 s
Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
0.19° / 0.13°
Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
0.73° / 0.52°
Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
0.0
Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
1.83°
Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
0.76°
Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
0.54°
Largest correctionvision vs prediction
0.25°
Zoom steps
15

Aircraft & route

Flight
SWA3346
Registration
N293WN
Type
Boeing 737NG 7H4/W
Airline
Southwest Airlines
From
—
To
—
Ground speed
306 kt
Altitude at closest
9,075 ft
Vertical rate
+640 ft/min
Category
A3
ICAO hex
a302a0

Pass geometry

Max elevation
25.6°
Elevation at start → end
25.6° → 18.1°
Azimuth at start → end
228° SW → 210° SSW
Closest-approach azimuth
228° SW
Minimum slant range
6.4 km
Heading at closest
186° S
Aspect at closest
quartering (42°)
Turn
straight (0°)
Departure
No
Zenith pass
No
Dead-zone wrap
No
Duration
0:27 (26.8 s)
Lock
68%

Build & tuning

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

Build
2026-10-12i — focus jumps only to trusted tele points; rate-steered setpoint; bias learned only when still
Commit
68739f5+wip
Node
v22.22.2
Camera
TONGVEO 20x PTZ · 1920×1080 @ 30 fps
Clip
13.5 MB · 27.0 s · offset -1.4 s
pursuit
velocity
maxLeadSec
3
panLatencySec
0.6
tiltLatencySec
0.4
rippleDeg
0.5
rippleTeleDeg
0.25
rateFloorDegPerDps
2.5
rateFloorMaxDeg
12
lockedSigmaDeg
0.35
correctionSlewDps
2.5
kp
1
ki
0.6

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