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SWA3170 Southwest Airlines

Boeing 737NG 7H4/W · N479WN

· 1:25side-onturned left 27°

3D replay

Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −69%). 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
75%
First lockfrom target selected
10.1 s
Centring, medianaz / el while locked
0.48° / 0.49°
Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
2.34° / 1.20°
Tightest field of viewhorizontal
3.5°
Time to 8°from first lock
6.6 s
Time to tightestfrom first lock
74.9 s
Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
11.5 s
Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
0.46° / 0.32°
Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
1.80° / 1.14°
Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
1.7
Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
2.62°
Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
2.60°
Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
1.03°
Largest correctionvision vs prediction
0.70°
Zoom steps
53

Aircraft & route

Flight
SWA3170
Registration
N479WN
Type
Boeing 737NG 7H4/W
Airline
Southwest Airlines
From
—
To
—
Ground speed
319 kt
Altitude at closest
10,650 ft
Vertical rate
+1,856 ft/min
Category
A3
ICAO hex
a5e48a

Pass geometry

Max elevation
60.6°
Elevation at start → end
23.2° → 21.9°
Azimuth at start → end
23° NNE → 166° SSE
Closest-approach azimuth
98° E
Minimum slant range
3.8 km
Heading at closest
186° S
Aspect at closest
side-on (89°)
Turn
turned left 27°
Departure
Yes — climbing out after take-off
Zenith pass
No
Dead-zone wrap
No
Duration
1:25 (85.1 s)
Lock
75%

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
43.0 MB · 86.0 s · offset -1.7 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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