Firebird Flight Manual
  • Firebird Flight Manual
  • Record of Manual Revisions
    • Revision A
  • Introduction
  • General Information and System Description
    • Aircraft
      • Airframe
      • Flight Control Surfaces
      • Propulsion, propellers, and rotors
      • Avionics
    • Control Station
      • Hardware, buttons and joysticks
      • User interface overview
      • Vehicle status indicator
      • Vehicle overview menu
      • Flight mode selector
      • Connection manager
      • Quick actions sidebar
      • Vehicle dashboard
      • Flight Map
      • Camera View
    • Command and Control
    • Launch and/or recovery equipment
      • Parachute
    • Ground operational area set up
  • Performance and Limitations
    • Battery Specifications
  • Normal Procedures
    • Pre-flight planning
      • Mission planning
        • Area Survey
        • Corridor Scan
        • Structure Scan
    • System Assembly
    • Pre-flight Inspection Check
    • System Starting and Takeoff
    • In-flight monitoring
    • Cruise / Maneuvering in flight
    • Payload Operation
    • Landing
    • System Shutdown
    • Post-flight inspection
  • Emergency Procedures
  • Weight and balance, and equipment list
  • Handling, servicing, preventative and field maintenance and instructions for continued airworthiness
    • Ground Handling
    • Disassembly, storage and reassembly
    • Battery Handling
    • Cleaning and care
    • Owner/Operator Responsibilities
    • Authorized field-level or preventative maintenance
    • Return to service procedures
  • Supplements
    • Payloads Operation
    • Continued Airworthiness
      • Notices of Corrective Action
    • External References
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Vehicle status indicator

Vehicle status indicator description

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Last updated 5 months ago

The high-level status indicator in the top left of the application bar provides immediate and distinguished color-coded notification of vehicle readiness to fly and in-air flight state.

The indicator also displays the current vehicle being controlled and text describing the status/problem. For VTOL aircraft it also indicates the current flight mode: Fixed-wing/Multirotor.

If there are multiple vehicles it can be used to select between them.

The indicator states are listed below.

Top bar indicators

Icon

Name

Description

Menu / icon

High-level status of the current vehicle (colour and status description). Also used to select the current vehicle.

Mode

Display the current flight mode. Select to enable a manual flight mode.

Connection manager

Pairing status.

Armed/Disarmed State

Display/select the armed state. The states are Armed (motors spinning), Disarmed. (motors stopped), Emergency Stop (motors stopped in flight, potentially causing the drone to crash).

GPS Status

GPS count, lock, HDOP, VDOP, Course over ground.

Link Quality

The bars represent the signal strength. The higher the count of lines the stronger the signal is.

Cellular Indicator

Status, Signal Strength, Up and Downlink rate.

Battery Status

Battery capacity remaining (percentage). For multiple batteries, the capacity of the battery that has the lowest percentage.

App menu (to Fly, Plan, Vehicle Setup, Photos, User Login, Application Settings).

/ Vehicle Selector

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High-Level Status

Green

Vehicle is ready to arm and take off.

Orange

Vehicle is not ready to take off for a known reason:

  • System requires setup (e.g. compass calibration).

  • Active warning of condition preventing takeoff (e.g. no position lock, low battery).

The "reason" is displayed as indicator text.

Red

Unknown fault preventing takeoff.

Vehicle status indicator on the top-left corner indicating a green status