SWA2791 Southwest Airlines
Boeing 737MAX 8 · N8746Q · OAK → BUR
· 0:30Quality 67side-on
Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −68%). 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
- 50%
- First lockfrom target selected
- 8.4 s
- Centring, medianaz / el while locked
- 0.87° / 0.25°
- Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
- 5.68° / 1.13°
- Tightest field of viewhorizontal
- 4.1°
- Time to 8°from first lock
- 11.0 s
- Time to tightestfrom first lock
- —
- Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
- 3.2 s
- Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
- 0.00° / 0.00°
- Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
- 0.00° / 0.00°
- Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
- 0.0
- Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
- 4.78°
- Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
- 1.20°
- Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
- 1.82°
- Largest correctionvision vs prediction
- 0.58°
- Zoom steps
- 26
Aircraft & route
- Flight
- SWA2791
- Registration
- N8746Q
- Type
- Boeing 737MAX 8
- Airline
- Southwest Airlines
- From
- OAK · Oakland
- To
- BUR · Burbank
- Ground speed
- 303 kt
- Altitude at closest
- 8,825 ft
- Vertical rate
- +3,072 ft/min
- Category
- A3
- ICAO hex
- ac086b
Pass geometry
- Max elevation
- 30.4°
- Elevation at start → end
- 23.0° → 30.0°
- Azimuth at start → end
- 305° NW → 251° WSW
- Closest-approach azimuth
- 258° WSW
- Minimum slant range
- 5.2 km
- Heading at closest
- 179° S
- Aspect at closest
- side-on (78°)
- Turn
- straight (2°)
- Departure
- Yes — climbing out after take-off
- Zenith pass
- No
- Dead-zone wrap
- No
- Duration
- 0:30 (30.2 s)
- Lock
- 50%
Build & tuning
The tracker build that flew this pass and the live settings that mattered, so passes can be compared across changes.
- Build
- 2026-10-13i — slower zoom ladder (one rung, 1.5 s)
- Commit
- 181d1fa+wip
- Node
- v22.22.2
- Camera
- TONGVEO 20x PTZ · 1920×1080 @ 30 fps
- Clip
- 14.9 MB · 30.0 s · offset -1.3 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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