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SWA2845 Southwest Airlines

Boeing 737NG 8H4/W · N8614M

· 1:29Quality 79lost lockside-onDead-zone wrap

3D replay

Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −63%). 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
79%
First lockfrom target selected
7.0 s
Centring, medianaz / el while locked
0.21° / 0.18°
Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
1.22° / 1.04°
Tightest field of viewhorizontal
4.1°
Time to 8°from first lock
3.6 s
Time to tightestfrom first lock
5.8 s
Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
54.3 s
Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
0.24° / 0.30°
Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
2.08° / 1.95°
Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
1.3
Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
11.76°
Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
4.73°
Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
0.88°
Largest correctionvision vs prediction
3.79°
Zoom steps
36

Aircraft & route

Flight
SWA2845
Registration
N8614M
Type
Boeing 737NG 8H4/W
Airline
Southwest Airlines
From
—
To
—
Ground speed
306 kt
Altitude at closest
10,400 ft
Vertical rate
+3,072 ft/min
Category
A3
ICAO hex
abd57e

Pass geometry

Max elevation
65.8°
Elevation at start → end
19.8° → 24.5°
Azimuth at start → end
347° NNW → 188° S
Closest-approach azimuth
265° W
Minimum slant range
3.5 km
Heading at closest
178° S
Aspect at closest
side-on (88°)
Turn
straight (2°)
Departure
Yes — climbing out after take-off
Zenith pass
No
Dead-zone wrap
Yes — pan pre-positioned across the stop
Duration
1:29 (89.0 s)
Lock
79%

Build & tuning

The tracker build that flew this pass and the live settings that mattered, so passes can be compared across changes.

Build
2026-10-14n — vision skyline mask 31x cheaper (loop back to ~15 Hz)
Commit
af2a83e
Node
v22.22.2
Camera
TONGVEO 20x PTZ · 1920×1080 @ 30 fps
Clip
44.4 MB · 89.0 s · offset -0.9 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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