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SWA2345 Southwest Airlines

Boeing 737NG 7H4/W · N245WN

· 1:04Quality 78side-onOverhead

3D replay

Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −64%). 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
72%
First lockfrom target selected
5.0 s
Centring, medianaz / el while locked
0.77° / 1.11°
Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
4.49° / 2.84°
Tightest field of viewhorizontal
4.1°
Time to 8°from first lock
9.1 s
Time to tightestfrom first lock
11.1 s
Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
6.8 s
Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
0.31° / 0.32°
Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
1.06° / 1.12°
Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
8.8
Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
0.96°
Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
3.01°
Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
1.28°
Largest correctionvision vs prediction
2.03°
Zoom steps
54

Aircraft & route

Flight
SWA2345
Registration
N245WN
Type
Boeing 737NG 7H4/W
Airline
Southwest Airlines
From
—
To
—
Ground speed
311 kt
Altitude at closest
9,400 ft
Vertical rate
+1,344 ft/min
Category
A3
ICAO hex
a24493

Pass geometry

Max elevation
79.7°
Elevation at start → end
24.1° → 36.5°
Azimuth at start → end
1° N → 194° SSW
Closest-approach azimuth
274° W
Minimum slant range
2.9 km
Heading at closest
186° S
Aspect at closest
side-on (88°)
Turn
straight (0°)
Departure
Yes — climbing out after take-off
Zenith pass
Yes — camera flipped over the top
Dead-zone wrap
No
Duration
1:04 (64.0 s)
Lock
72%

Build & tuning

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

Build
2026-10-13j — full 3.4 deg tele for slow planes (limit only above 0.5 deg/s)
Commit
181d1fa+wip
Node
v22.22.2
Camera
TONGVEO 20x PTZ · 1920×1080 @ 30 fps
Clip
32.0 MB · 64.0 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

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