SWA3190 Southwest Airlines
Boeing 737-8 · N8851Q
· 0:14Quality 40shortnose/tail
Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −61%). 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
- 49%
- First lockfrom target selected
- 3.9 s
- Centring, medianaz / el while locked
- 0.96° / 0.26°
- Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
- 2.02° / 2.59°
- Tightest field of viewhorizontal
- 5.8°
- Time to 8°from first lock
- 8.2 s
- Time to tightestfrom first lock
- 8.7 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
- 0.93°
- Largest correctionvision vs prediction
- 3.39°
- Zoom steps
- 11
Aircraft & route
- Flight
- SWA3190
- Registration
- N8851Q
- Type
- Boeing 737-8
- Airline
- Southwest Airlines
- From
- —
- To
- —
- Ground speed
- 315 kt
- Altitude at closest
- 10,225 ft
- Vertical rate
- +1,728 ft/min
- Category
- A3
- ICAO hex
- ac32f2
Pass geometry
- Max elevation
- 38.4°
- Elevation at start → end
- 38.4° → 27.9°
- Azimuth at start → end
- 156° SSE → 163° SSE
- Closest-approach azimuth
- 156° SSE
- Minimum slant range
- 5.1 km
- Heading at closest
- 174° S
- Aspect at closest
- nose/tail (18°)
- Turn
- straight (0°)
- Departure
- Yes — climbing out after take-off
- Zenith pass
- No
- Dead-zone wrap
- No
- Duration
- 0:14 (13.6 s)
- Lock
- 49%
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
- 6.9 MB · 14.0 s · offset -1.3 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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