SWA1170 Southwest Airlines
Boeing 737-8 · N8908Q
· 1:03Quality 54lost lockside-on
Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −52%). 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
- 57%
- First lockfrom target selected
- 5.3 s
- Centring, medianaz / el while locked
- 0.72° / 0.23°
- Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
- 2.09° / 1.36°
- Tightest field of viewhorizontal
- 3.4°
- Time to 8°from first lock
- 2.5 s
- Time to tightestfrom first lock
- —
- Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
- 12.9 s
- Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
- 0.56° / 0.10°
- Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
- 1.22° / 0.26°
- Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
- 3.1
- Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
- 2.90°
- Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
- 4.40°
- Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
- 0.90°
- Largest correctionvision vs prediction
- 2.35°
- Zoom steps
- 35
Aircraft & route
- Flight
- SWA1170
- Registration
- N8908Q
- Type
- Boeing 737-8
- Airline
- Southwest Airlines
- From
- —
- To
- —
- Ground speed
- 310 kt
- Altitude at closest
- 10,400 ft
- Vertical rate
- +2,560 ft/min
- Category
- A3
- ICAO hex
- ac48d3
Pass geometry
- Max elevation
- 58.5°
- Elevation at start → end
- 19.6° → 42.1°
- Azimuth at start → end
- 353° N → 221° SW
- Closest-approach azimuth
- 278° W
- Minimum slant range
- 3.8 km
- Heading at closest
- 190° S
- Aspect at closest
- side-on (88°)
- Turn
- straight (0°)
- Departure
- Yes — climbing out after take-off
- Zenith pass
- No
- Dead-zone wrap
- No
- Duration
- 1:03 (63.2 s)
- Lock
- 57%
Build & tuning
The tracker build that flew this pass and the live settings that mattered, so passes can be compared across changes.
- Build
- 2026-10-14i — zoom sigma grows after lock loss (0.1°/s)
- Commit
- 181d1fa+wip
- Node
- v22.22.2
- Camera
- TONGVEO 20x PTZ · 1920×1080 @ 30 fps
- Clip
- 31.5 MB · 63.0 s · offset -1.3 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
- sigmaGrowthDps
- 0.1
- aimLeadSec
- 0.59
- correctionSlewDps
- 2.5
- kp
- 1
- ki
- 0.6
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