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SWA3329 Southwest Airlines

Boeing 737-8 · N8877Q

· 0:48Quality 88nose/tail

3D replay

Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −79%). 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
71%
First lockfrom target selected
11.7 s
Centring, medianaz / el while locked
0.10° / 0.18°
Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
0.34° / 0.34°
Tightest field of viewhorizontal
4.1°
Time to 8°from first lock
3.5 s
Time to tightestfrom first lock
5.6 s
Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
29.7 s
Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
0.15° / 0.15°
Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
0.76° / 0.77°
Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
0.0
Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
1.76°
Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
1.85°
Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
0.57°
Largest correctionvision vs prediction
1.27°
Zoom steps
36

Aircraft & route

Flight
SWA3329
Registration
N8877Q
Type
Boeing 737-8
Airline
Southwest Airlines
From
—
To
—
Ground speed
328 kt
Altitude at closest
12,825 ft
Vertical rate
-512 ft/min
Category
A3
ICAO hex
ac3b32

Pass geometry

Max elevation
55.6°
Elevation at start → end
22.2° → 55.6°
Azimuth at start → end
327° NNW → 348° NNW
Closest-approach azimuth
348° NNW
Minimum slant range
4.8 km
Heading at closest
140° SE
Aspect at closest
nose/tail (28°)
Turn
straight (5°)
Departure
No
Zenith pass
No
Dead-zone wrap
No
Duration
0:48 (47.5 s)
Lock
71%

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
22.9 MB · 46.3 s · offset -1.5 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

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