SWA4097 Southwest Airlines
OAK → BUR
· 1:06Quality 88side-onturned 23°
Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −75%). 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
- 84%
- First lockfrom target selected
- 6.3 s
- Centring, medianaz / el while locked
- 0.40° / 0.16°
- Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
- 1.26° / 1.28°
- Tightest field of viewhorizontal
- 4.1°
- Time to 8°from first lock
- 11.3 s
- Time to tightestfrom first lock
- 16.9 s
- Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
- 26.8 s
- Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
- 0.40° / 0.15°
- Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
- 2.30° / 0.73°
- Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
- 0.0
- Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
- 2.66°
- Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
- 0.55°
- Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
- 0.97°
- Largest correctionvision vs prediction
- 1.41°
- Zoom steps
- 32
Aircraft & route
- Flight
- SWA4097
- Registration
- —
- Type
- —
- Airline
- Southwest Airlines
- From
- OAK · Oakland
- To
- BUR · Burbank
- Ground speed
- 334 kt
- Altitude at closest
- 11,850 ft
- Vertical rate
- +3,712 ft/min
- Category
- A3
- ICAO hex
- ac791b
Pass geometry
- Max elevation
- 26.5°
- Elevation at start → end
- 19.2° → 23.9°
- Azimuth at start → end
- 5° N → 82° E
- Closest-approach azimuth
- 59° ENE
- Minimum slant range
- 7.8 km
- Heading at closest
- 134° SE
- Aspect at closest
- side-on (75°)
- Turn
- turned 23°
- Departure
- Yes — climbing out after take-off
- Zenith pass
- No
- Dead-zone wrap
- No
- Duration
- 1:06 (65.9 s)
- Lock
- 84%
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
- 33.0 MB · 66.0 s · offset -1.5 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