SWA2404 Southwest Airlines
Boeing 737NG 8H4/W · N8677A · SFO → ?
· 0:45Quality 75lost lockquartering
Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −66%). 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
- 63%
- First lockfrom target selected
- 6.0 s
- Centring, medianaz / el while locked
- 0.11° / 0.18°
- Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
- 0.30° / 0.59°
- Tightest field of viewhorizontal
- 3.4°
- Time to 8°from first lock
- 2.6 s
- Time to tightestfrom first lock
- 15.3 s
- Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
- 30.2 s
- Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
- 0.11° / 0.23°
- Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
- 0.56° / 0.97°
- Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
- 0.0
- Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
- 1.35°
- Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
- 1.01°
- Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
- 0.43°
- Largest correctionvision vs prediction
- 0.86°
- Zoom steps
- 20
Aircraft & route
- Flight
- SWA2404
- Registration
- N8677A
- Type
- Boeing 737NG 8H4/W
- Airline
- Southwest Airlines
- From
- SFO
- To
- —
- Ground speed
- 301 kt
- Altitude at closest
- 9,725 ft
- Vertical rate
- +3,328 ft/min
- Category
- A3
- ICAO hex
- abec26
Pass geometry
- Max elevation
- 24.8°
- Elevation at start → end
- 24.8° → 15.1°
- Azimuth at start → end
- 225° SW → 204° SSW
- Closest-approach azimuth
- 225° SW
- Minimum slant range
- 7.1 km
- Heading at closest
- 185° S
- Aspect at closest
- quartering (40°)
- Turn
- straight (0°)
- Departure
- Yes — climbing out after take-off
- Zenith pass
- No
- Dead-zone wrap
- No
- Duration
- 0:45 (44.7 s)
- Lock
- 63%
Build & tuning
The tracker build that flew this pass and the live settings that mattered, so passes can be compared across changes.
- Build
- 2026-10-15r — keep the target past the sun; paced speed re-latch
- Commit
- 05024bb
- Node
- v22.22.2
- Camera
- TONGVEO 20x PTZ · 1920×1080 @ 30 fps
- Clip
- 21.0 MB · 44.0 s · offset -0.1 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
- -0.21
- 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