SWA3154 Southwest Airlines
Boeing 737NG 7H4/W · N457WN · SJC → LGB
· 1:30Quality 94nose/tail
Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −67%). Download
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Where the aircraft sat in the frame, second by second. Click the chart to jump the video there.
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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
- 95%
- First lockfrom target selected
- 4.2 s
- Centring, medianaz / el while locked
- 0.16° / 0.17°
- Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
- 1.41° / 0.94°
- Tightest field of viewhorizontal
- 3.4°
- Time to 8°from first lock
- 3.1 s
- Time to tightestfrom first lock
- —
- Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
- 63.8 s
- Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
- 0.46° / 0.24°
- Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
- 2.56° / 1.49°
- Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
- 0.8
- Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
- 5.27°
- Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
- 4.11°
- Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
- 0.76°
- Largest correctionvision vs prediction
- 3.46°
- Zoom steps
- 26
Aircraft & route
- Flight
- SWA3154
- Registration
- N457WN
- Type
- Boeing 737NG 7H4/W
- Airline
- Southwest Airlines
- From
- SJC · San Jose
- To
- LGB · Long Beach
- Ground speed
- 323 kt
- Altitude at closest
- 11,450 ft
- Vertical rate
- +1,152 ft/min
- Category
- A3
- ICAO hex
- a58e1e
Pass geometry
- Max elevation
- 82.0°
- Elevation at start → end
- 19.6° → 27.3°
- Azimuth at start → end
- 352° N → 181° S
- Closest-approach azimuth
- 266° W
- Minimum slant range
- 3.5 km
- Heading at closest
- 176° S
- Aspect at closest
- nose/tail (31°)
- Turn
- straight (2°)
- Departure
- Yes — climbing out after take-off
- Zenith pass
- No
- Dead-zone wrap
- No
- Duration
- 1:30 (90.0 s)
- Lock
- 95%
Build & tuning
The tracker build that flew this pass and the live settings that mattered, so passes can be compared across changes.
- Build
- 2026-10-16a — main b067f99 (review cleanup)
- Commit
- b067f99
- Node
- v22.22.2
- Camera
- TONGVEO 20x PTZ · 1920×1080 @ 30 fps
- Clip
- 44.2 MB · 89.0 s · offset -0.9 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
This clip and poster are © Skylight (Cameron Paczek): free for non-commercial use with credit to skylightceiling.com, not MIT. License