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SWA2424 Southwest Airlines

Boeing 737NG 7H4/W · N913WN

· 2:09Quality 73lost locknose/tailturned left 19°

3D replay

Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −52%). 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
60%
First lockfrom target selected
17.2 s
Centring, medianaz / el while locked
0.45° / 0.35°
Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
1.97° / 1.76°
Tightest field of viewhorizontal
3.4°
Time to 8°from first lock
24.6 s
Time to tightestfrom first lock
75.7 s
Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
53.3 s
Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
0.52° / 0.41°
Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
2.76° / 2.74°
Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
0.0
Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
4.13°
Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
3.76°
Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
1.77°
Largest correctionvision vs prediction
3.98°
Zoom steps
105

Aircraft & route

Flight
SWA2424
Registration
N913WN
Type
Boeing 737NG 7H4/W
Airline
Southwest Airlines
From
—
To
—
Ground speed
299 kt
Altitude at closest
9,550 ft
Vertical rate
+3,648 ft/min
Category
A3
ICAO hex
aca3d1

Pass geometry

Max elevation
89.3°
Elevation at start → end
18.8° → 16.1°
Azimuth at start → end
7° N → 174° S
Closest-approach azimuth
91° E
Minimum slant range
2.9 km
Heading at closest
188° S
Aspect at closest
nose/tail (3°)
Turn
turned left 19°
Departure
Yes — climbing out after take-off
Zenith pass
No
Dead-zone wrap
No
Duration
2:09 (129.2 s)
Lock
60%

Build & tuning

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

Build
2026-10-15t — vertical rate falls back to geom_rate (server)
Commit
218644c
Node
v22.22.2
Camera
TONGVEO 20x PTZ · 1920×1080 @ 30 fps
Clip
64.5 MB · 129.0 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
-0.09
correctionSlewDps
2.5
kp
1
ki
0.6

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