SWA956 Southwest Airlines
Boeing 737NG 7H4/W · N489WN
· 1:06Quality 85side-on
Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −71%). 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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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
- 68%
- First lockfrom target selected
- 11.7 s
- Centring, medianaz / el while locked
- 0.32° / 0.38°
- Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
- 1.65° / 1.72°
- Tightest field of viewhorizontal
- 4.1°
- Time to 8°from first lock
- 4.1 s
- Time to tightestfrom first lock
- 7.3 s
- Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
- 16.6 s
- Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
- 0.34° / 0.28°
- Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
- 2.42° / 1.94°
- Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
- 0.0
- Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
- 1.37°
- Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
- 2.60°
- Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
- 1.07°
- Largest correctionvision vs prediction
- 2.50°
- Zoom steps
- 37
Aircraft & route
- Flight
- SWA956
- Registration
- N489WN
- Type
- Boeing 737NG 7H4/W
- Airline
- Southwest Airlines
- From
- —
- To
- —
- Ground speed
- 336 kt
- Altitude at closest
- 11,025 ft
- Vertical rate
- +1,856 ft/min
- Category
- A3
- ICAO hex
- a60c09
Pass geometry
- Max elevation
- 74.9°
- Elevation at start → end
- 17.3° → 55.9°
- Azimuth at start → end
- 21° NNE → 172° S
- Closest-approach azimuth
- 105° ESE
- Minimum slant range
- 3.5 km
- Heading at closest
- 195° SSW
- Aspect at closest
- side-on (90°)
- Turn
- straight (0°)
- Departure
- Yes — climbing out after take-off
- Zenith pass
- No
- Dead-zone wrap
- No
- Duration
- 1:06 (66.3 s)
- Lock
- 68%
Build & tuning
The tracker build that flew this pass and the live settings that mattered, so passes can be compared across changes.
- Build
- 2026-10-14e — feedforward in head axes
- 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
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