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SWA9003 Southwest Airlines

Boeing 737NG 7H4/W · N429WN

· 2:01Quality 92side-onturned left 66°Dead-zone wrap

3D replay

Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −69%). 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
76%
First lockfrom target selected
10.7 s
Centring, medianaz / el while locked
0.24° / 0.11°
Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
1.06° / 0.22°
Tightest field of viewhorizontal
3.4°
Time to 8°from first lock
5.0 s
Time to tightestfrom first lock
70.6 s
Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
82.8 s
Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
0.41° / 0.14°
Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
2.73° / 0.89°
Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
0.1
Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
3.70°
Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
1.76°
Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
1.03°
Largest correctionvision vs prediction
1.34°
Zoom steps
50

Aircraft & route

Flight
SWA9003
Registration
N429WN
Type
Boeing 737NG 7H4/W
Airline
Southwest Airlines
From
—
To
—
Ground speed
302 kt
Altitude at closest
10,700 ft
Vertical rate
+3,072 ft/min
Category
A3
ICAO hex
a51f0f

Pass geometry

Max elevation
42.4°
Elevation at start → end
36.0° → 14.6°
Azimuth at start → end
314° NW → 170° S
Closest-approach azimuth
270° W
Minimum slant range
4.9 km
Heading at closest
187° S
Aspect at closest
side-on (83°)
Turn
turned left 66°
Departure
Yes — climbing out after take-off
Zenith pass
No
Dead-zone wrap
Yes — pan pre-positioned across the stop
Duration
2:01 (121.1 s)
Lock
76%

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
59.8 MB · 122.0 s · offset -1.8 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
-0.27
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