# Vehicle status indicator
The *high level status indicator* in the top left of the application bar provides immediate and highly visible 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 vehicles (only) this may also display the mode: *Fixed-wing*/*Multirotor*.
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If there are multiple vehicles it can be used to select between them.
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The indicator states are listed below.
| **Indicator** | **Color** | **Description** |
| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
|  | 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. |
**Top bar indicators**
| **Icon** | **Name** | **Description** |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 
| **Menu / icon** | App menu ([navigate ](/vehicle-operation/auterion-mission-control/navigating.md)to *Fly*, *Plan*, *Vehicle Setup, Photos*, *User Login*, *Application Settings*). |
|  | [**High-Level Status**](/vehicle-operation/auterion-mission-control/ui-breakdown/fly/high-level-status.md) **/** **Vehicle Selector** | 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.
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