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SWA2502 Southwest Airlines

Boeing 737NG 7BD/W · N7702A

· 0:45Quality 73lost lockside-on

3D replay

Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −64%). 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
38%
First lockfrom target selected
17.3 s
Centring, medianaz / el while locked
0.23° / 0.17°
Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
2.91° / 0.94°
Tightest field of viewhorizontal
4.1°
Time to 8°from first lock
19.8 s
Time to tightestfrom first lock
21.7 s
Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
7.0 s
Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
0.17° / 0.19°
Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
0.74° / 0.73°
Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
0.0
Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
2.66°
Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
1.62°
Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
1.33°
Largest correctionvision vs prediction
0.86°
Zoom steps
60

Aircraft & route

Flight
SWA2502
Registration
N7702A
Type
Boeing 737NG 7BD/W
Airline
Southwest Airlines
From
—
To
—
Ground speed
314 kt
Altitude at closest
11,200 ft
Vertical rate
+832 ft/min
Category
A3
ICAO hex
aa6ba6

Pass geometry

Max elevation
41.7°
Elevation at start → end
22.4° → 41.5°
Azimuth at start → end
326° NW → 254° WSW
Closest-approach azimuth
261° W
Minimum slant range
5.1 km
Heading at closest
175° S
Aspect at closest
side-on (86°)
Turn
straight (8°)
Departure
Yes — climbing out after take-off
Zenith pass
No
Dead-zone wrap
No
Duration
0:45 (45.0 s)
Lock
38%

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
22.5 MB · 45.0 s · offset -1.2 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
-0.03
correctionSlewDps
2.5
kp
1
ki
0.6

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