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SWA450 Southwest Airlines

Boeing 737NG 79P/W · N7862A

· 1:20Quality 88side-onturned left 28°

3D replay

Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −75%). 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
87%
First lockfrom target selected
7.4 s
Centring, medianaz / el while locked
0.19° / 0.17°
Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
1.10° / 0.42°
Tightest field of viewhorizontal
4.1°
Time to 8°from first lock
2.3 s
Time to tightestfrom first lock
4.7 s
Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
47.7 s
Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
0.58° / 0.20°
Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
2.84° / 1.18°
Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
0.6
Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
5.09°
Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
3.58°
Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
1.75°
Largest correctionvision vs prediction
0.65°
Zoom steps
50

Aircraft & route

Flight
SWA450
Registration
N7862A
Type
Boeing 737NG 79P/W
Airline
Southwest Airlines
From
—
To
—
Ground speed
290 kt
Altitude at closest
10,375 ft
Vertical rate
+640 ft/min
Category
A3
ICAO hex
aaa96f

Pass geometry

Max elevation
70.8°
Elevation at start → end
23.6° → 24.7°
Azimuth at start → end
32° NNE → 168° SSE
Closest-approach azimuth
93° E
Minimum slant range
3.4 km
Heading at closest
187° S
Aspect at closest
side-on (86°)
Turn
turned left 28°
Departure
No
Zenith pass
No
Dead-zone wrap
No
Duration
1:20 (79.6 s)
Lock
87%

Build & tuning

The tracker build that flew this pass and the live settings that mattered, so passes can be compared across changes.

Build
2026-10-16i — lock-first on; shadow silhouette sky-masked
Commit
5610684
Node
v22.22.2
Camera
TONGVEO 20x PTZ · 1920×1080 @ 30 fps
Clip
8.1 MB · 80.0 s · offset -1.3 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
-0.19
correctionSlewDps
2.5
kp
1
ki
0.6

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