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SWA3207 Southwest Airlines

Boeing 737NG 7H4/W · N487WN · OAK → BUR

· 0:33Quality 4no planelost lockquartering

3D replay

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
6%
First lockfrom target selected
9.9 s
Centring, medianaz / el while locked
0.25° / 0.87°
Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
0.25° / 0.87°
Tightest field of viewhorizontal
8.3°
Time to 8°from first lock
—
Time to tightestfrom first lock
2.7 s
Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
0.0 s
Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
—
Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
—
Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
—
Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
—
Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
—
Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
0.52°
Largest correctionvision vs prediction
0.38°
Zoom steps
39

Aircraft & route

Flight
SWA3207
Registration
N487WN
Type
Boeing 737NG 7H4/W
Airline
Southwest Airlines
From
OAK · Oakland
To
BUR · Burbank
Ground speed
377 kt
Altitude at closest
13,825 ft
Vertical rate
+3,072 ft/min
Category
A3
ICAO hex
a6049b

Pass geometry

Max elevation
18.3°
Elevation at start → end
18.3° → 15.3°
Azimuth at start → end
239° WSW → 221° SW
Closest-approach azimuth
239° WSW
Minimum slant range
13.5 km
Heading at closest
191° S
Aspect at closest
quartering (48°)
Turn
straight (9°)
Departure
Yes — climbing out after take-off
Zenith pass
No
Dead-zone wrap
No
Duration
0:33 (32.5 s)
Lock
6%

Build & tuning

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

Build
2026-10-15p — selection hysteresis; auto-cal drops stale bias
Commit
b8aa462
Node
v22.22.2
Camera
TONGVEO 20x PTZ · 1920×1080 @ 30 fps
Clip
10.6 MB · 26.9 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
-0.16
correctionSlewDps
2.5
kp
1
ki
0.6

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