SWA3190 Southwest Airlines
Boeing 737-8 · N8851Q
· 1:05Quality 93side-on
Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −67%). 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
- 82%
- First lockfrom target selected
- 6.5 s
- Centring, medianaz / el while locked
- 0.47° / 0.40°
- Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
- 2.26° / 1.56°
- Tightest field of viewhorizontal
- 4.1°
- Time to 8°from first lock
- 4.4 s
- Time to tightestfrom first lock
- 6.9 s
- Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
- 12.5 s
- Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
- 0.27° / 0.47°
- Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
- 1.11° / 1.71°
- Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
- 0.0
- Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
- 1.99°
- Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
- 2.29°
- Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
- 1.21°
- Largest correctionvision vs prediction
- 3.21°
- Zoom steps
- 33
Aircraft & route
- Flight
- SWA3190
- Registration
- N8851Q
- Type
- Boeing 737-8
- Airline
- Southwest Airlines
- From
- —
- To
- —
- Ground speed
- 295 kt
- Altitude at closest
- 9,550 ft
- Vertical rate
- +2,112 ft/min
- Category
- A3
- ICAO hex
- ac32f2
Pass geometry
- Max elevation
- 67.9°
- Elevation at start → end
- 19.6° → 44.4°
- Azimuth at start → end
- 4° N → 152° SSE
- Closest-approach azimuth
- 85° E
- Minimum slant range
- 3.2 km
- Heading at closest
- 173° S
- Aspect at closest
- side-on (88°)
- Turn
- straight (4°)
- Departure
- Yes — climbing out after take-off
- Zenith pass
- No
- Dead-zone wrap
- No
- Duration
- 1:05 (64.6 s)
- Lock
- 82%
Build & tuning
The tracker build that flew this pass and the live settings that mattered, so passes can be compared across changes.
- Build
- 2026-10-13l — log why the zoom ladder moved
- Commit
- 181d1fa+wip
- Node
- v22.22.2
- Camera
- TONGVEO 20x PTZ · 1920×1080 @ 30 fps
- Clip
- 32.4 MB · 65.0 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