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SWA3783 Southwest Airlines

Boeing 737NG 8H4/W · N8672F · SFO → ?

· 0:15Quality 59lost lockside-on

3D replay

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
9.5 s
Centring, medianaz / el while locked
0.22° / 0.46°
Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
1.42° / 1.88°
Tightest field of viewhorizontal
3.4°
Time to 8°from first lock
3.2 s
Time to tightestfrom first lock
—
Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
3.8 s
Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
0.11° / 0.13°
Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
0.33° / 0.34°
Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
0.0
Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
—
Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
—
Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
4.39°
Largest correctionvision vs prediction
0.53°
Zoom steps
35

Aircraft & route

Flight
SWA3783
Registration
N8672F
Type
Boeing 737NG 8H4/W
Airline
Southwest Airlines
From
SFO
To
—
Ground speed
289 kt
Altitude at closest
9,200 ft
Vertical rate
+3,520 ft/min
Category
A3
ICAO hex
abeb7c

Pass geometry

Max elevation
35.0°
Elevation at start → end
34.9° → 31.6°
Azimuth at start → end
252° WSW → 226° SW
Closest-approach azimuth
250° WSW
Minimum slant range
4.9 km
Heading at closest
173° S
Aspect at closest
side-on (76°)
Turn
straight (0°)
Departure
Yes — climbing out after take-off
Zenith pass
No
Dead-zone wrap
No
Duration
0:15 (15.0 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
2026-10-16b — silhouette fallback reach 0.8° + multipart uploads
Commit
2ed816b
Node
v22.22.2
Camera
TONGVEO 20x PTZ · 1920×1080 @ 30 fps
Clip
8.0 MB · 16.0 s · offset -1.8 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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