SWA3995 Southwest Airlines
Boeing 737-8 · N8778Q
· 0:45Quality 87quarteringturned right 15°
Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −71%). 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
- 82%
- First lockfrom target selected
- 5.7 s
- Centring, medianaz / el while locked
- 0.11° / 0.10°
- Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
- 0.34° / 0.27°
- Tightest field of viewhorizontal
- 3.6°
- Time to 8°from first lock
- 4.0 s
- Time to tightestfrom first lock
- 39.0 s
- Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
- 32.2 s
- Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
- 0.15° / 0.16°
- Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
- 1.43° / 0.78°
- Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
- 0.6
- Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
- 3.49°
- Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
- 1.36°
- Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
- 0.69°
- Largest correctionvision vs prediction
- 0.53°
- Zoom steps
- 28
Aircraft & route
- Flight
- SWA3995
- Registration
- N8778Q
- Type
- Boeing 737-8
- Airline
- Southwest Airlines
- From
- —
- To
- —
- Ground speed
- 306 kt
- Altitude at closest
- 12,625 ft
- Vertical rate
- -512 ft/min
- Category
- A3
- ICAO hex
- ac13d6
Pass geometry
- Max elevation
- 62.5°
- Elevation at start → end
- 62.5° → 25.0°
- Azimuth at start → end
- 101° ESE → 141° SE
- Closest-approach azimuth
- 101° ESE
- Minimum slant range
- 4.4 km
- Heading at closest
- 141° SE
- Aspect at closest
- quartering (39°)
- Turn
- turned right 15°
- Departure
- No
- Zenith pass
- No
- Dead-zone wrap
- No
- Duration
- 0:45 (45.0 s)
- Lock
- 82%
Build & tuning
The tracker build that flew this pass and the live settings that mattered, so passes can be compared across changes.
- Build
- 2026-10-15q — drive speed latched at the lens position; measured speed bytes only; auto-cal keeps gains
- Commit
- 44f2d6a
- Node
- v22.22.2
- Camera
- TONGVEO 20x PTZ · 1920×1080 @ 30 fps
- Clip
- 22.5 MB · 45.0 s · offset -0.8 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
- -0.11
- 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