SWA365 Southwest Airlines
Boeing 737NG 800/W · N8502Z
· 0:58Quality 96side-onturned left 16°
Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −74%). 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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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
- 94%
- First lockfrom target selected
- 1.4 s
- Centring, medianaz / el while locked
- 0.57° / 0.29°
- Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
- 2.89° / 1.98°
- Tightest field of viewhorizontal
- 4.1°
- Time to 8°from first lock
- 13.8 s
- Time to tightestfrom first lock
- 16.4 s
- Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
- 24.1 s
- Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
- 0.89° / 0.27°
- Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
- 3.33° / 1.13°
- Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
- 0.0
- Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
- 4.98°
- Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
- 2.48°
- Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
- 1.13°
- Largest correctionvision vs prediction
- 2.04°
- Zoom steps
- 28
Aircraft & route
- Flight
- SWA365
- Registration
- N8502Z
- Type
- Boeing 737NG 800/W
- Airline
- Southwest Airlines
- From
- —
- To
- —
- Ground speed
- 300 kt
- Altitude at closest
- 9,300 ft
- Vertical rate
- +2,624 ft/min
- Category
- A3
- ICAO hex
- abaa0e
Pass geometry
- Max elevation
- 39.1°
- Elevation at start → end
- 19.1° → 34.4°
- Azimuth at start → end
- 332° NNW → 227° SW
- Closest-approach azimuth
- 261° W
- Minimum slant range
- 4.5 km
- Heading at closest
- 174° S
- Aspect at closest
- side-on (87°)
- Turn
- turned left 16°
- Departure
- Yes — climbing out after take-off
- Zenith pass
- No
- Dead-zone wrap
- No
- Duration
- 0:58 (58.1 s)
- Lock
- 94%
Build & tuning
The tracker build that flew this pass and the live settings that mattered, so passes can be compared across changes.
- Build
- 2026-10-14h — park lead from measured abs speed, pass setup block (schema 1.4)
- Commit
- 181d1fa+wip
- Node
- v22.22.2
- Camera
- TONGVEO 20x PTZ · 1920×1080 @ 30 fps
- Clip
- 29.0 MB · 58.0 s · offset -1.4 s
- pursuit
- velocity
- maxLeadSec
- 3
- panLatencySec
- 0.6
- tiltLatencySec
- 0.4
- rippleDeg
- 0.5
- rippleTeleDeg
- 0.25
- maxSpeedStepFwps
- 0.45
- speedReachFrac
- 0.8
- lockedSigmaDeg
- 0.35
- correctionSlewDps
- 2.5
- kp
- 1
- ki
- 0.6
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