Stumbled on a great new site when I was cruising around through ClearanceWiki.com. Ever heard of FlightCentral.net?
This site looks ready to take on AirNav.com for the one-stop shop for airport information. The biggest hurdle they are going to have to overcome, aside from the competition in this area, is the HUGE head start that AirNav has terms of the number of pilots (and FBOs and restaurants, etc.) that are contributing to the site.
That being said, once you've signed up for a free account on this system the home page becomes your own personal launch page. You can set up the MFD to quickly and easily display up to 6 different charts to get a quick glance at the weather in your normal flight areas. along the right side, you can also define your Favorite Airports, Favorite Links and Pilot Dates. The Airports will provide you with not only a quick link to the airport's page (SNA is shown) as well as the current METAR and a little colored ball indicating VFR, MVFR and IFR. Favorite links are obvious and the pilot's dates allows you to put up reminders of upcoming dates (medical, BFRs, inspections on plane, wife's birthday, etc.)
As nice as the front page is, the really cool stuff is found on an Airport's page. For example, you'll find at left my home field of KSNA. What I really appreciate is that it gives you a quick glance at the most important stuff right up top. 
The Runways section holds the pertinent information about runways (runway names, length x width and surface types) but if you are using a modern browser and you hover over a particular runway, you'll get a pop-up item that shows you the crosswind based on the current METAR! You'll also find a communications box up top, as well as a sectional and aerial view of the airport. Below that you'll find blocks for Current Weather (showing METARs and flight conditions ball from this and nearby airports (as well as links to historical weather for this airport)), Forecasts with links to Radar, Satellite, Surface charts and Area Forecasts, and Winds Aloft information.
You'll also find a convenient little tabbed box on the page that not only lists the various Approaches, Arrivals procedures, Departure procedures and Other. All of these link to the actual PDF files direct from the digital TPP provided by the FAA. The files pop-up in the same "Lightbox" style shown above with the surface chart.
Each airport page also includes across the top the identifiers, an indicator of whether it is towered or not Elevation, coordinates, distance from named city as well as links to a pop-up (more Web 2.0 goodness) for the actual page from the current AFD, the official airport diagram, a link to the airport official website, NOTAMS, a link to add to your Favorites (see the front page description) and a button to open up Google Earth at this location.
There is one other button here and that is to visit the airport Community page. The Community page is a nice feature that shows a calendar of events, the number (and an list of first name) of different types of pilots that have registered on the site with this as their Home Airport, a chat window, an image gallery (coming soon), a blog and information about local EAA chapters and CAP squadrons. This is a great feature that will only grow in value as they get more participants in the site.
Running across the top of every page (with the exception of the Virtual Community and Pilot Lounge) there is a tabbed strip with quick links to take you to MyFlightCentral (the home page), Flight Planning, the Airports page, Weather and the Pilot's Lounge. Each of these tabs remembers the most recently viewed Airport or Flight Plan so you can move about the site without fear of losing the work you've performed on the site.
There is some rudimentary flight planning (basically distance between airports with True Course, time en-route and fuel burn (the last two if you have provided your normal cruising airspeed). What is really nice though is this is presented on a page that is suitable for printing that contains much of the elements you'd need to have all your ducks on one page to assist with departure and arrival airports. In addition to the close-up of the section you'll find boxes for Frequencies, Runways, Current (and historic) weather, Forecasts and Terminal Procedures for each airport.
Of course you'll find standard information like Airport Businesses, Remarks, Comments, and Fuel Prices (coming soon). This is the area where the needs the contributions and the frequent visitors that others like AirNav have since the majority of this information is supplied by pilots and FBO owners. I wish the folks behind this the best of luck with their new venture. I think this has GREAT potential and it is the upgrade that AirNav sorely needs. I think if either this company bought AirNav (for the content and traffic) or AirNav bought this company (for the technology to implement their content in) you would have an UNSTOPPABLE combination. I have to admire the chutzpah required to try and create a new (and in my mind better) airport/flight planning community-driven information site like this when there are so many other competitors in the arena already with such a big head start...
Wanna take a tour? Click here to watch slick video describing the features of this site. In the meantime, go to this site, join and start filling it up with information about your local airport!
BTW - Another "wish list" item I'd like to see? If they could cooperate with Leftse.at website to add an online enhanced logbook application for pilots to track their flight hours, wow, would that be fantastic!
Tags: flight planning, navigation, community