SWA4097 Southwest Airlines
OAK → BUR
· 1:32Quality 93side-onDead-zone wrap
Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −66%). 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
- 80%
- First lockfrom target selected
- 5.2 s
- Centring, medianaz / el while locked
- 0.16° / 0.22°
- Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
- 0.60° / 0.96°
- Tightest field of viewhorizontal
- 3.4°
- Time to 8°from first lock
- 3.2 s
- Time to tightestfrom first lock
- 83.7 s
- Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
- 39.6 s
- Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
- 0.24° / 0.26°
- Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
- 1.61° / 1.12°
- Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
- 0.0
- Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
- 10.65°
- Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
- 4.28°
- Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
- 0.98°
- Largest correctionvision vs prediction
- 0.49°
- Zoom steps
- 35
Aircraft & route
- Flight
- SWA4097
- Registration
- —
- Type
- —
- Airline
- Southwest Airlines
- From
- OAK · Oakland
- To
- BUR · Burbank
- Ground speed
- 390 kt
- Altitude at closest
- 11,150 ft
- Vertical rate
- +2,496 ft/min
- Category
- A3
- ICAO hex
- ac541b
Pass geometry
- Max elevation
- 46.1°
- Elevation at start → end
- 20.8° → 19.6°
- Azimuth at start → end
- 312° NW → 172° S
- Closest-approach azimuth
- 241° WSW
- Minimum slant range
- 4.7 km
- Heading at closest
- 155° SSE
- Aspect at closest
- side-on (86°)
- Turn
- straight (0°)
- Departure
- Yes — climbing out after take-off
- Zenith pass
- No
- Dead-zone wrap
- Yes — pan pre-positioned across the stop
- Duration
- 1:32 (92.2 s)
- Lock
- 80%
Build & tuning
The tracker build that flew this pass and the live settings that mattered, so passes can be compared across changes.
- Build
- 2026-10-14l — vision lock coasts with the plane; a zoom ends a focus drive
- Commit
- f5b573a
- Node
- v22.22.2
- Camera
- TONGVEO 20x PTZ · 1920×1080 @ 30 fps
- Clip
- 46.0 MB · 92.0 s · offset -1.2 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
- -0.28
- correctionSlewDps
- 2.5
- kp
- 1
- ki
- 0.6
This clip and poster are © Skylight (Cameron Paczek): free for non-commercial use with credit to skylightceiling.com, not MIT. License