SWA971 Southwest Airlines
Boeing 737NG 7H4/W · N231WN
· 1:27Quality 76lost locknose/tail
Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −60%). 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
- 82%
- First lockfrom target selected
- 4.4 s
- Centring, medianaz / el while locked
- 0.13° / 0.13°
- Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
- 0.69° / 0.86°
- Tightest field of viewhorizontal
- 3.4°
- Time to 8°from first lock
- 3.2 s
- Time to tightestfrom first lock
- 28.6 s
- Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
- 69.6 s
- Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
- 0.14° / 0.16°
- Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
- 1.03° / 0.87°
- Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
- 0.6
- Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
- 2.64°
- Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
- 1.02°
- Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
- 0.38°
- Largest correctionvision vs prediction
- 3.73°
- Zoom steps
- 33
Aircraft & route
- Flight
- SWA971
- Registration
- N231WN
- Type
- Boeing 737NG 7H4/W
- Airline
- Southwest Airlines
- From
- —
- To
- —
- Ground speed
- 308 kt
- Altitude at closest
- 12,550 ft
- Vertical rate
- -128 ft/min
- Category
- A3
- ICAO hex
- a20e38
Pass geometry
- Max elevation
- 46.7°
- Elevation at start → end
- 46.7° → 11.6°
- Azimuth at start → end
- 123° ESE → 149° SSE
- Closest-approach azimuth
- 123° ESE
- Minimum slant range
- 5.3 km
- Heading at closest
- 148° SSE
- Aspect at closest
- nose/tail (25°)
- Turn
- straight (10°)
- Departure
- No
- Zenith pass
- No
- Dead-zone wrap
- No
- Duration
- 1:27 (86.6 s)
- Lock
- 82%
Build & tuning
The tracker build that flew this pass and the live settings that mattered, so passes can be compared across changes.
- Build
- 2026-10-16e — A/B mountPrior + candidate diagnostics
- Commit
- ffe4b92
- Node
- v22.22.2
- Camera
- TONGVEO 20x PTZ · 1920×1080 @ 30 fps
- Clip
- 43.0 MB · 86.0 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
- -0.1
- correctionSlewDps
- 2.5
- kp
- 1
- ki
- 0.6
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