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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  • Check High-Level Status (Top bar)
  • Review Notifications and Warnings
  • Check Flight Stats/Telemetry information
  • Check Flight Path and Destinations (Map)
  • View the Video Feed (Video Switcher)
  1. Normal Procedures

In-flight monitoring

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More detailed references can be found in the section.

Check High-Level Status (Top bar)

Use the navigation bar to visualize and understand the current aircraft state. It displays the current aircraft and its high-level status, flight mode, armed/disarmed state, and indicators for pairing, connectivity level, GPS, battery, and remote control.

Review Notifications and Warnings

Mission Control displays important warnings as a message popup at the screen's center top. The aforementioned lets you know about unexpected behaviors and problems. Moreover, whenever possible, the notification will also warn you about the cause of the problem and actions to be taken unless such actions are implied and/or straightforward.

Messages of lower importance and missed warnings are logged and can be viewed by selecting the aircraft icon.

Check Flight Stats/Telemetry information

Use the Telemetry Panel, located at the bottom right, to get information about the current flight. There you can visualize the aircraft's speed, altitude, direction of travel, total flight time and distances, and time to get back to the ground station, etc.

Check Flight Path and Destinations (Map)

Use the map to see the aircraft's current location and where it has been to confirm that the aircraft is going to the desired location according to the planned mission.

The map shows the home position, the current position, and the heading.

If there is a mission or destination (e.g. goto or orbit) it will show these details as well, and overlay the historical flight path.

You can pan and zoom the map as needed to get a better view (using the normal methods for your ground station - e.g. mouse, or pinch/drag).

View the Video Feed (Video Switcher)

Use the video switcher to watch where the aircraft is flying. You can toggle the video switcher to swap the video and map or resize the panel using drag'n'drop on the corner.

Control Station