SWA4868 Southwest Airlines
Boeing 737NG 800/W · N8534Z · SFO → ?
· 0:37Quality 56lost lockside-onturned left 20°
Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −42%). 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
- 31%
- First lockfrom target selected
- 6.7 s
- Centring, medianaz / el while locked
- 0.48° / 0.51°
- Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
- 2.60° / 11.51°
- Tightest field of viewhorizontal
- 4.2°
- Time to 8°from first lock
- 27.5 s
- Time to tightestfrom first lock
- 29.5 s
- Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
- 0.8 s
- Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
- 0.03° / 0.13°
- Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
- 0.08° / 0.36°
- Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
- 0.0
- Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
- —
- Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
- —
- Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
- 1.37°
- Largest correctionvision vs prediction
- 0.16°
- Zoom steps
- 33
Aircraft & route
- Flight
- SWA4868
- Registration
- N8534Z
- Type
- Boeing 737NG 800/W
- Airline
- Southwest Airlines
- From
- SFO
- To
- —
- Ground speed
- 299 kt
- Altitude at closest
- 9,325 ft
- Vertical rate
- +2,880 ft/min
- Category
- A3
- ICAO hex
- abb579
Pass geometry
- Max elevation
- 21.9°
- Elevation at start → end
- 14.6° → 21.9°
- Azimuth at start → end
- 293° WNW → 254° WSW
- Closest-approach azimuth
- 254° WSW
- Minimum slant range
- 7.7 km
- Heading at closest
- 165° SSE
- Aspect at closest
- side-on (89°)
- Turn
- turned left 20°
- Departure
- Yes — climbing out after take-off
- Zenith pass
- No
- Dead-zone wrap
- No
- Duration
- 0:37 (36.6 s)
- Lock
- 31%
Build & tuning
The tracker build that flew this pass and the live settings that mattered, so passes can be compared across changes.
- Build
- 2026-10-14k — loop integrates real tick time; aim lead −0.2 s
- Commit
- 33c2b35-k
- Node
- v22.22.2
- Camera
- TONGVEO 20x PTZ · 1920×1080 @ 30 fps
- Clip
- 18.5 MB · 37.0 s · offset -1.6 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
- -0.2
- correctionSlewDps
- 2.5
- kp
- 1
- ki
- 0.6
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