Feature Toggles

Overview

Not every flying club needs every feature Centerline offers. A small, informal club might not want to introduce the complexity of hobbs and tach time tracking. Another club might not yet be ready to use the events system. Feature toggles let you enable or disable optional capabilities for your entire organization, keeping the interface clean and focused on what your club actually uses.

When a feature is disabled, it disappears from the interface for all members — no cluttered menus, no confusing options that lead nowhere. When you're ready to adopt a feature, enabling it is a single toggle with no data loss or migration required.

Required Role

You must have the Account Owner role to change feature settings.

Accessing Feature Toggles

1. Click Setup in the navigation bar.
2. Select the Data & Features tab.
3. The Features card contains all available toggles.

Available Features

Aircraft Time Tracking

What it does: When enabled, pilots can record hobbs and tach time at the end of a flight. After a reservation is completed, the member can open their flight log entry and enter the start and end readings for both hobbs time and tach time. These readings are stored per flight and visible in the flight logs section.

Why it matters: Accurate hobbs and tach time tracking is essential for maintenance scheduling. Many recurring maintenance items — 100-hour inspections, oil changes, TBO intervals — are triggered by tach time, not calendar time. When pilots log their tach readings consistently, your maintenance coordinator has real data to work with rather than estimates based on average daily usage.

Time tracking data also gives your club visibility into actual utilization. You can see how many hours are being flown on each aircraft per month, identify which aircraft are underutilized, and have accurate data for insurance reporting.

When to disable: If your club's maintenance coordinator tracks time through a separate system, or if your club is very small and tracks time informally, you may prefer to disable this feature to keep the pilot experience simpler.

To enable or disable:

1. Go to Setup > Data & Features > Features.
2. Toggle the Aircraft Time Tracking switch on or off.
3. Click Save.

Events

What it does: When enabled, Account Owners can create and manage club events — fly-outs, safety seminars, cookouts, formation clinics, and any other organized gathering. Members can view upcoming events and register to attend. Events appear on a dedicated Events page and can optionally be published to a calendar feed for members to subscribe to in their personal calendar apps.

Why it matters: Events are a powerful community-building tool. Clubs that run regular fly-outs and social events tend to have higher member retention and a stronger sense of belonging. Having events managed inside Centerline rather than scattered across emails and Facebook posts means members only need one place to check for what's happening at the club.

The calendar feed feature (available when Events is enabled) lets members subscribe to club events using their preferred calendar app — Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, Outlook, and any other app that supports iCal feeds. Once subscribed, new events appear automatically in a member's calendar without them needing to manually check the Centerline events page.

When to disable: If your club manages events through a separate channel (a website, a mailing list, etc.) and doesn't want to duplicate the effort, you can disable the Events feature to keep the navigation cleaner.

To enable or disable:

1. Go to Setup > Data & Features > Features.
2. Toggle the Events switch on or off.
3. Click Save.

Calendar Feed (Events Feature)

When the Events feature is enabled, a Calendar Feed section appears below the feature toggles. This lets you generate a shareable URL that members can use to subscribe to your club's event calendar.

Generating a Feed URL

1. Enable the Events feature and save.
2. The Calendar Feed section will appear.
3. Click Generate Feed URL.
4. A unique URL is created for your organization.
5. Copy the URL using the copy button and share it with members.

Sharing the Feed

Members can add the feed URL to their calendar app by using the "Subscribe to calendar" or "Add calendar by URL" function. The exact steps vary by app:

• Google Calendar: Settings > Other calendars > "+" > From URL
• Apple Calendar: File > New Calendar Subscription
• Outlook: Add calendar > From Internet

Once subscribed, new events created in Centerline will appear automatically in the member's calendar, typically within a few minutes of creation.

Regenerating the Feed URL

If you need to revoke access to the calendar feed (for example, if the URL was shared publicly by accident), you can regenerate it:

1. Click Regenerate URL below the feed URL field.
2. Confirm the action in the dialog that appears.
3. A new URL is generated; the old URL stops working immediately.

Important: Members who subscribed using the old URL will no longer receive updates. You'll need to share the new URL with them and ask them to re-subscribe.

Tips

• Enable Aircraft Time Tracking from day one if you have any aircraft with tach-based maintenance intervals. Retroactively reconstructing hobbs and tach history is tedious; capturing it going forward is easy.
• Roll out the Events feature before your first club event of the season so you can use it for real event management rather than introducing it to members during a busy period.
• Share the calendar feed URL in your club's welcome email to new members and in your club newsletter. The more members who subscribe, the better event attendance tends to be.
• If you regenerate the calendar feed URL, send a club-wide communication right away so members can update their subscriptions before they miss an event.