SWA2910 Southwest Airlines
Boeing 737NG 800/W · N8550Q
· 0:46Quality 72side-on
Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −65%). Download
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Where the aircraft sat in the frame, second by second. Click the chart to jump the video there.
—FOV —az —el —pose —
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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
- 80%
- First lockfrom target selected
- 4.6 s
- Centring, medianaz / el while locked
- 1.23° / 0.51°
- Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
- 2.52° / 1.30°
- Tightest field of viewhorizontal
- 6.6°
- Time to 8°from first lock
- 4.6 s
- Time to tightestfrom first lock
- 6.2 s
- Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
- 0.0 s
- Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
- —
- Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
- —
- Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
- —
- Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
- —
- Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
- —
- Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
- 1.40°
- Largest correctionvision vs prediction
- 1.52°
- Zoom steps
- 31
Aircraft & route
- Flight
- SWA2910
- Registration
- N8550Q
- Type
- Boeing 737NG 800/W
- Airline
- Southwest Airlines
- From
- —
- To
- —
- Ground speed
- 354 kt
- Altitude at closest
- 12,450 ft
- Vertical rate
- -576 ft/min
- Category
- A3
- ICAO hex
- abbc52
Pass geometry
- Max elevation
- 71.8°
- Elevation at start → end
- 42.5° → 41.1°
- Azimuth at start → end
- 337° NNW → 127° SE
- Closest-approach azimuth
- 50° NE
- Minimum slant range
- 4.0 km
- Heading at closest
- 140° SE
- Aspect at closest
- side-on (90°)
- Turn
- straight (9°)
- Departure
- No
- Zenith pass
- No
- Dead-zone wrap
- No
- Duration
- 0:46 (45.9 s)
- Lock
- 80%
Build & tuning
The tracker build that flew this pass and the live settings that mattered, so passes can be compared across changes.
- Build
- 2026-10-13k — centred plane + noisy motion check no longer demotes the zoom
- Commit
- 181d1fa+wip
- Node
- v22.22.2
- Camera
- TONGVEO 20x PTZ · 1920×1080 @ 30 fps
- Clip
- 22.9 MB · 46.0 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