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SWA2762 Southwest Airlines

Boeing 737NG 752/W · N7847A

· 1:13Quality 91side-onturned left 29°

3D replay

Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −77%). Download

Trace

Where the aircraft sat in the frame, second by second. Click the chart to jump the video there.

—FOV —az —el —pose —
Lock

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
77%
First lockfrom target selected
12.0 s
Centring, medianaz / el while locked
0.14° / 0.16°
Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
2.04° / 0.50°
Tightest field of viewhorizontal
4.1°
Time to 8°from first lock
11.9 s
Time to tightestfrom first lock
13.9 s
Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
32.5 s
Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
0.15° / 0.18°
Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
0.85° / 0.76°
Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
0.0
Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
4.66°
Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
2.13°
Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
1.02°
Largest correctionvision vs prediction
2.94°
Zoom steps
21

Aircraft & route

Flight
SWA2762
Registration
N7847A
Type
Boeing 737NG 752/W
Airline
Southwest Airlines
From
—
To
—
Ground speed
342 kt
Altitude at closest
11,300 ft
Vertical rate
+1,216 ft/min
Category
A3
ICAO hex
aaa2b0

Pass geometry

Max elevation
34.9°
Elevation at start → end
18.5° → 27.9°
Azimuth at start → end
337° NNW → 231° SW
Closest-approach azimuth
273° W
Minimum slant range
6.0 km
Heading at closest
186° S
Aspect at closest
side-on (87°)
Turn
turned left 29°
Departure
Yes — climbing out after take-off
Zenith pass
No
Dead-zone wrap
No
Duration
1:13 (73.2 s)
Lock
77%

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
36.4 MB · 73.0 s · offset -1.0 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
-0.22
correctionSlewDps
2.5
kp
1
ki
0.6

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