SWA853 Southwest Airlines
Boeing 737MAX 8 · N8757L
· 2:12Quality 86side-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.
—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
- 98%
- First lockfrom target selected
- 3.0 s
- Centring, medianaz / el while locked
- 0.12° / 0.13°
- Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
- 0.33° / 0.37°
- Tightest field of viewhorizontal
- 3.4°
- Time to 8°from first lock
- 4.5 s
- Time to tightestfrom first lock
- 93.6 s
- Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
- 118.4 s
- Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
- 0.15° / 0.20°
- Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
- 0.89° / 1.38°
- Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
- 0.1
- Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
- 5.68°
- Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
- 2.80°
- Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
- 0.67°
- Largest correctionvision vs prediction
- 3.04°
- Zoom steps
- 14
Aircraft & route
- Flight
- SWA853
- Registration
- N8757L
- Type
- Boeing 737MAX 8
- Airline
- Southwest Airlines
- From
- —
- To
- —
- Ground speed
- 284 kt
- Altitude at closest
- 9,775 ft
- Vertical rate
- +1,856 ft/min
- Category
- A3
- ICAO hex
- ac0c41
Pass geometry
- Max elevation
- 53.8°
- Elevation at start → end
- 19.1° → 14.1°
- Azimuth at start → end
- 350° N → 198° SSW
- Closest-approach azimuth
- 276° W
- Minimum slant range
- 3.7 km
- Heading at closest
- 189° S
- Aspect at closest
- side-on (87°)
- Turn
- straight (0°)
- Departure
- Yes — climbing out after take-off
- Zenith pass
- No
- Dead-zone wrap
- No
- Duration
- 2:12 (131.6 s)
- Lock
- 98%
Build & tuning
The tracker build that flew this pass and the live settings that mattered, so passes can be compared across changes.
- Build
- 2026-10-16h — lock-first association on (A/B −40% tele gaps)
- Commit
- dfc3684
- Node
- v22.22.2
- Camera
- TONGVEO 20x PTZ · 1920×1080 @ 30 fps
- Clip
- 66.0 MB · 132.0 s · offset -1.4 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
- -0.24
- correctionSlewDps
- 2.5
- kp
- 1
- ki
- 0.6
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