SWA3288 Southwest Airlines
Boeing 737NG 8H4/W · N8661A · SFO → ?
· 2:02Quality 90side-on
Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −73%). 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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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
- 77%
- First lockfrom target selected
- 7.1 s
- Centring, medianaz / el while locked
- 0.13° / 0.12°
- Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
- 0.70° / 0.41°
- Tightest field of viewhorizontal
- 3.4°
- Time to 8°from first lock
- 4.4 s
- Time to tightestfrom first lock
- 76.9 s
- Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
- 101.1 s
- Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
- 0.28° / 0.21°
- Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
- 1.86° / 1.66°
- Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
- 0.0
- Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
- 3.14°
- Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
- 2.52°
- Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
- 0.61°
- Largest correctionvision vs prediction
- 3.17°
- Zoom steps
- 31
Aircraft & route
- Flight
- SWA3288
- Registration
- N8661A
- Type
- Boeing 737NG 8H4/W
- Airline
- Southwest Airlines
- From
- SFO
- To
- —
- Ground speed
- 280 kt
- Altitude at closest
- 8,025 ft
- Vertical rate
- +3,136 ft/min
- Category
- A3
- ICAO hex
- abe79d
Pass geometry
- Max elevation
- 31.0°
- Elevation at start → end
- 17.9° → 13.7°
- Azimuth at start → end
- 324° NW → 202° SSW
- Closest-approach azimuth
- 260° W
- Minimum slant range
- 4.6 km
- Heading at closest
- 186° S
- Aspect at closest
- side-on (74°)
- Turn
- straight (5°)
- Departure
- Yes — climbing out after take-off
- Zenith pass
- No
- Dead-zone wrap
- No
- Duration
- 2:02 (121.5 s)
- Lock
- 77%
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
- 55.8 MB · 113.5 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
- -0.03
- correctionSlewDps
- 2.5
- kp
- 1
- ki
- 0.6
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