The Calendar View

Overview

The calendar is the operational heart of Centerline. It's a shared, live view of everything happening with your club's fleet — confirmed reservations, backup bookings, and maintenance blocks, all visible to every member at once. That shared visibility is the point: when everyone is looking at the same calendar, scheduling conflicts drop dramatically. There's no more "I didn't know the plane was taken," no double-bookings, and no need for a club secretary to manually coordinate between members. The calendar makes the fleet's availability self-evident.

Shared visibility also creates a kind of informal accountability. When members can see each other's reservations, there's a natural incentive to keep bookings accurate — to update times when plans change, to cancel early when a flight falls through, and to use the "Arrived Early" feature when returning ahead of schedule. The calendar works best when every member treats it as the single source of truth for the fleet.

Calendar Navigation

• Today button — Jumps to the current date and highlights the current time. Useful for quickly orienting yourself after browsing future weeks.
• Arrow buttons — Navigate forward and backward through time, one period at a time (day, week, or month depending on your current view).
• View selector — Switch between day, week, and month views. Each serves a different planning purpose:
  • Day view — Best for seeing exact start/end times on a busy day and understanding the precise shape of the schedule.
  • Week view — The most practical for planning. You can see the whole week's availability across multiple aircraft and spot open windows at a glance.
  • Month view — Useful for long-range planning and identifying which weekends are already heavily booked.

Color Coding

Events on the calendar are color-coded so you can read the fleet's status at a glance without opening individual reservations:

• Cyan/Teal — Confirmed reservations. The aircraft is booked, and this member has the slot.
• Orange — Backup reservations. Someone wants this slot, but it conflicts with an existing booking. They'll be promoted automatically if the conflict clears.
• Red — Maintenance blocks. The aircraft is unavailable for flight during this period. These are created by members with maintenance permissions and cannot be overridden by standard bookings.

Filtering by Aircraft

Use the aircraft dropdown at the top of the calendar to filter which aircraft are displayed. This is particularly useful when:

• Your organization has several aircraft and the calendar becomes visually dense
• You're only interested in a specific type and want to focus on its availability
• You're planning a trip in a particular aircraft and want an uncluttered view of its schedule

Your filter selection is saved between sessions, so returning to the calendar will show you the same aircraft you were looking at before.

Viewing Reservation Details

Click on any event on the calendar to open a detail panel. You'll see:

• Aircraft — Tail number and type
• Pilot name — Who made the reservation
• Start and end times — Exact scheduled window
• Destination — Where they're flying, if provided
• Comments — Any notes the member added
• Instructor — If the flight is an instructional flight with a designated club instructor
• Edit / Cancel buttons — Available if you have permission to modify the reservation (your own bookings, or any booking if you have a Booking or Account Owner role)

Creating Events from the Calendar

You can create new reservations and maintenance blocks directly from the calendar:

• Click the New Reservation button — Opens the reservation dialog with blank fields.
• Click on an empty time slot — Opens the reservation dialog pre-filled with the time and date you clicked. This is the fastest way to book a specific slot.
• Click New Maintenance — Opens the maintenance block dialog (only visible if you have Maintenance permissions).

Tips

• The week view is usually your best starting point for planning — it balances detail and breadth better than day or month view.
• Look for gaps between cyan blocks to find open slots. Anything not colored is available.
• Red maintenance blocks are firm — the aircraft cannot be booked during these periods, and attempting to do so will create a backup reservation, not a confirmed one.
• Orange backups tell a story — if you see several orange blocks stacked up for a particular aircraft, that slot is in high demand. It may be worth checking nearby times instead, or making your own backup reservation if that's genuinely when you need to fly.
• Click someone else's reservation to see where the plane will be. That destination field can be useful for knowing if the aircraft will return in good condition before your own flight.