SWA4043 Southwest Airlines
Boeing 737 MAX 8 · N9004H
· 1:02Quality 82side-on
Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −53%). Download
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Where the aircraft sat in the frame, second by second. Click the chart to jump the video there.
—FOV —az —el —pose —
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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
- 11.0 s
- Centring, medianaz / el while locked
- 1.11° / 0.17°
- Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
- 5.24° / 0.67°
- Tightest field of viewhorizontal
- 3.4°
- Time to 8°from first lock
- 5.2 s
- Time to tightestfrom first lock
- 9.2 s
- Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
- 31.0 s
- Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
- 0.61° / 0.31°
- Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
- 3.18° / 1.77°
- Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
- 0.3
- Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
- 8.06°
- Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
- 5.24°
- Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
- 3.78°
- Largest correctionvision vs prediction
- 1.91°
- Zoom steps
- 51
Aircraft & route
- Flight
- SWA4043
- Registration
- N9004H
- Type
- Boeing 737 MAX 8
- Airline
- Southwest Airlines
- From
- —
- To
- —
- Ground speed
- 252 kt
- Altitude at closest
- 8,375 ft
- Vertical rate
- +1,472 ft/min
- Category
- A3
- ICAO hex
- ac7218
Pass geometry
- Max elevation
- 67.3°
- Elevation at start → end
- 66.5° → 20.8°
- Azimuth at start → end
- 266° W → 170° S
- Closest-approach azimuth
- 250° WSW
- Minimum slant range
- 2.8 km
- Heading at closest
- 162° SSE
- Aspect at closest
- side-on (88°)
- Turn
- straight (2°)
- Departure
- Yes — climbing out after take-off
- Zenith pass
- No
- Dead-zone wrap
- No
- Duration
- 1:02 (62.1 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
- 2026-10-16c — mount prior carried to the next target (silhouette reach reverted)
- Commit
- 8649c7d
- Node
- v22.22.2
- Camera
- TONGVEO 20x PTZ · 1920×1080 @ 30 fps
- Clip
- 41.9 MB · 62.0 s · offset -1.0 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
- -0.15
- 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