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SWA3766 Southwest Airlines

Boeing 737NG 800/W · N8545V

· 0:11Quality 40shortclip shortnose/tail

3D replay

Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −62%). 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
46%
First lockfrom target selected
5.9 s
Centring, medianaz / el while locked
0.35° / 0.26°
Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
1.13° / 1.79°
Tightest field of viewhorizontal
3.4°
Time to 8°from first lock
3.3 s
Time to tightestfrom first lock
—
Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
3.1 s
Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
—
Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
—
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
0.94°
Largest correctionvision vs prediction
0.74°
Zoom steps
13

Aircraft & route

Flight
SWA3766
Registration
N8545V
Type
Boeing 737NG 800/W
Airline
Southwest Airlines
From
—
To
—
Ground speed
339 kt
Altitude at closest
14,475 ft
Vertical rate
-1,984 ft/min
Category
A3
ICAO hex
abb94f

Pass geometry

Max elevation
22.2°
Elevation at start → end
19.6° → 22.2°
Azimuth at start → end
327° NNW → 327° NNW
Closest-approach azimuth
327° NNW
Minimum slant range
11.7 km
Heading at closest
146° SE
Aspect at closest
nose/tail (1°)
Turn
straight (9°)
Departure
No
Zenith pass
No
Dead-zone wrap
No
Duration
0:11 (11.0 s)
Lock
46%

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
6.2 MB · 6.8 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
-0.1
correctionSlewDps
2.5
kp
1
ki
0.6

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