SWA2514 Southwest Airlines
Boeing 737-8 · N8900L · SJC → ONT
· 1:28Quality 82nose/tailOverhead
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.
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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
- 70%
- First lockfrom target selected
- 6.6 s
- Centring, medianaz / el while locked
- 0.45° / 0.52°
- Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
- 2.83° / 1.85°
- Tightest field of viewhorizontal
- 4.1°
- Time to 8°from first lock
- 3.8 s
- Time to tightestfrom first lock
- 6.2 s
- Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
- 15.1 s
- Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
- 0.27° / 0.60°
- Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
- 1.28° / 2.55°
- Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
- 7.3
- Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
- 1.02°
- Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
- 3.16°
- Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
- 1.21°
- Largest correctionvision vs prediction
- 1.24°
- Zoom steps
- 66
Aircraft & route
- Flight
- SWA2514
- Registration
- N8900L
- Type
- Boeing 737-8
- Airline
- Southwest Airlines
- From
- SJC · San Jose
- To
- ONT · Ontario
- Ground speed
- 318 kt
- Altitude at closest
- 9,000 ft
- Vertical rate
- +2,048 ft/min
- Category
- A3
- ICAO hex
- ac47b7
Pass geometry
- Max elevation
- 84.5°
- Elevation at start → end
- 19.8° → 21.3°
- Azimuth at start → end
- 0° N → 183° S
- Closest-approach azimuth
- 274° W
- Minimum slant range
- 2.8 km
- Heading at closest
- 183° S
- Aspect at closest
- nose/tail (17°)
- Turn
- straight (12°)
- Departure
- Yes — climbing out after take-off
- Zenith pass
- Yes — camera flipped over the top
- Dead-zone wrap
- No
- Duration
- 1:28 (88.3 s)
- Lock
- 70%
Build & tuning
The tracker build that flew this pass and the live settings that mattered, so passes can be compared across changes.
- Build
- 2026-10-13a — zoom ladder waits for the lens to settle before demoting
- Commit
- 181d1fa+wip
- Node
- v22.22.2
- Camera
- TONGVEO 20x PTZ · 1920×1080 @ 30 fps
- Clip
- 44.0 MB · 88.0 s · offset -1.0 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
This clip and poster are © Skylight (Cameron Paczek): free for non-commercial use with credit to skylightceiling.com, not MIT. License