SWA3170 Southwest Airlines
Boeing 737NG 7H4/W · N458WN
· 0:34Quality 85side-on
Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −68%). 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
- 89%
- First lockfrom target selected
- 4.3 s
- Centring, medianaz / el while locked
- 0.15° / 0.11°
- Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
- 0.47° / 0.25°
- Tightest field of viewhorizontal
- 3.4°
- Time to 8°from first lock
- 3.7 s
- Time to tightestfrom first lock
- —
- Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
- 19.1 s
- Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
- 0.16° / 0.14°
- Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
- 0.62° / 0.48°
- Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
- 0.0
- Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
- 1.81°
- Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
- 0.66°
- Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
- 0.54°
- Largest correctionvision vs prediction
- 0.68°
- Zoom steps
- 10
Aircraft & route
- Flight
- SWA3170
- Registration
- N458WN
- Type
- Boeing 737NG 7H4/W
- Airline
- Southwest Airlines
- From
- —
- To
- —
- Ground speed
- 302 kt
- Altitude at closest
- 10,525 ft
- Vertical rate
- +3,648 ft/min
- Category
- A3
- ICAO hex
- a591d5
Pass geometry
- Max elevation
- 25.2°
- Elevation at start → end
- 25.2° → 18.0°
- Azimuth at start → end
- 79° E → 106° ESE
- Closest-approach azimuth
- 79° E
- Minimum slant range
- 7.6 km
- Heading at closest
- 137° SE
- Aspect at closest
- side-on (58°)
- Turn
- straight (0°)
- Departure
- Yes — climbing out after take-off
- Zenith pass
- No
- Dead-zone wrap
- No
- Duration
- 0:34 (34.2 s)
- Lock
- 89%
Build & tuning
The tracker build that flew this pass and the live settings that mattered, so passes can be compared across changes.
- Build
- 2026-10-14m — upstream carries fields missing from one poll
- Commit
- 5b2d779
- Node
- v22.22.2
- Camera
- TONGVEO 20x PTZ · 1920×1080 @ 30 fps
- Clip
- 17.0 MB · 34.0 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
- sigmaGrowthDps
- 0.1
- aimLeadSec
- -0.16
- correctionSlewDps
- 2.5
- kp
- 1
- ki
- 0.6
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