Airnav (Firefox tip)

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I get lazy sometimes and I've found myself looking up airport after airport on airnav. Here's a tip.
  1. go to http://www.airnav.com and bookmark the page.
  2. go to your bookmark, right click and choose properties
  3. Where it says "Location" paste in the following
Code: 
javascript:Qr=document.getSelection();if(!Qr){void(Qr=prompt('Enter Airport Here',''))};if(Qr)location.href='http://www.airnav.com/airport/'+escape(Qr)
Now when you click on the link it will give you a prompt. Just type in the airport you're looking for (i.e. KLNK) and it will take you directly to the page.

enjoy!

P.S. One additional hint is that you can also just highlight the airport identifier on the page and hit your bookmark and it will auto enter the airport for you.

Try it once you've created your bookmark by highlighting the line below and then choosing your new bookmark

KLNK
 
It works! Way cool! B) B) B)

THANKS!



I wonder if you could add AirNav as one of the search engines for the search box. Gotta try that.
 
mikea said:
I wonder if you could add AirNav as one of the search engines for the search box. Gotta try that.
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I have AirNav in my Firefox search box. Can't remember what forum I got it from...I think AOPA. I'll see if I can find it for you.
 
Thanks for the tip. I think AirNav is the greatest thing since sliced bread.
 
If someone could cross post the AOPA thread I would appreciate it. I'm currently not an AOPA member therefore I cannot access the forum.
 
jangell said:
If someone could cross post the AOPA thread I would appreciate it. I'm currently not an AOPA member therefore I cannot access the forum.
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Here ya go...

"Hi all -

I took a quick look to see if it existed, but it didn't... so I quickly whipped up a Firefox Search Plugin for AirNav.com.

If you use AirNav regularly, it'll probably be pretty useful.

Let me know if it doesn't work as expected.

http://www.turcan.net/airnav.html

-David"
 
Doesn't work for me. What version of firefox do you have? It appears to be busting the URL syntax for airnav by throwing in some mozilla-search thing.
 
jangell said:
Doesn't work for me. What version of firefox do you have? It appears to be busting the URL syntax for airnav by throwing in some mozilla-search thing.
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Oops, doesn't work for me now, but it did work before I upgraded to Firefox 1.5.0.4. Dang, I have had a few problems since upgrading this time. Took forever to get spellchecker working again.

I'll post over there...maybe the guy has a different version since the upgrade.
 
I think the entire site is down right now. (http://www.airnav.com)

At least I'm not able to reach it. Try again when it's back up. If it still does't work, let me know and I'll see if I can hack together a search plugin that works.

I've always liked my original solution better because I use goole to much to switch back and forth.
 
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FlyNE said:
We're right up there with the Slashdot Effect.
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Explain the joke why don't you? Now it's the digg effect that's worse.

Just a few days ago they linked to content on an online BBS/blog that looked interesting. Following the plug link at the bottom of the page I read that it's a commercial .NET application that starts at $500 a year to buy. Then I go back to digg and read the comments and see that the diggers who first followed the link were all getting the "40n - HTTP Server busy" error message. Makes the system worth the money, huh? Funny how that message only comes from Windows servers. :rolleyes:
 
jangell said:
Doesn't work for me.
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It's working for me now. I wonder if the problem was because AirNav was down when we tried it before.
 
Re: Airnav down, how to reach the site

Diana said:
It's working for me now. I wonder if the problem was because AirNav was down when we tried it before.
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Airnav.com is experiencing DNS issues (can't translate 'www.airnav.com' to their assigned IP address).

In the meantime, you can reach it this way: http://216.55.182.43/
 
Just now reading this thread - the Firefox search box plugin for Airnav seems to be working just fine, in Firefox 2.0

I keep forgetting I have the stupid thing, and continue to waste time going to the Airnav site :redface:
 
For Safari users:

Create a file named 'airnav.html' anywhere on your computer. (I created a folder inside the /Library directory). Inside airnav.html place the text:
Code: 
<html><script>Qr=false;if(!Qr){void(Qr=prompt('Enter Airport Here',''))};if(Qr)location.href='http://www.airnav.com/airport/'+escape(Qr)</script></html>
Drag this file into the bookmarks, and voila.
 
In any of the latest versions of Firefox, you can create a keyword for the input string.

Using Weather.com as an example:

Go to http://www.weather.com
Right click in the box where you would put in the location you want, ie.: your zip code and select. "Add a keyword for this search."
Put in a name like "Weather" so you'll know later what you did.
In the keyword section, put in a letter or a word. I put in the letter w.
Click "Add".
Now close the site.
When you want the weather for example in zip 30094, you would just type in the address bar, w 30094. Firefox goes to weather.com and puts in the zip code for you.
I did it for Airnav.com's airport directory service using air as my keyword.
Typing air 52a in the address bar brings up my home field.It works on anysite that has a search bar.
 
I think I've still got Jason's search bar add-in working with Airnav - logo and all.

I also added YouTube with a Firefox extension.

Life is good.
 
Keith Lane said:
In any of the latest versions of Firefox, you can create a keyword for the input string.

Using Weather.com as an example:

Go to http://www.weather.com
Right click in the box where you would put in the location you want, ie.: your zip code and select. "Add a keyword for this search."
Put in a name like "Weather" so you'll know later what you did.
In the keyword section, put in a letter or a word. I put in the letter w.
Click "Add".
Now close the site.
When you want the weather for example in zip 30094, you would just type in the address bar, w 30094. Firefox goes to weather.com and puts in the zip code for you.
I did it for Airnav.com's airport directory service using air as my keyword.
Typing air 52a in the address bar brings up my home field.It works on anysite that has a search bar.
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Cool, works for me. Thanks!
 
Keith Lane said:
In any of the latest versions of Firefox, you can create a keyword for the input string.

Using Weather.com as an example:

Go to http://www.weather.com
Right click in the box where you would put in the location you want, ie.: your zip code and select. "Add a keyword for this search."
Put in a name like "Weather" so you'll know later what you did.
In the keyword section, put in a letter or a word. I put in the letter w.
Click "Add".
Now close the site.
When you want the weather for example in zip 30094, you would just type in the address bar, w 30094. Firefox goes to weather.com and puts in the zip code for you.
I did it for Airnav.com's airport directory service using air as my keyword.
Typing air 52a in the address bar brings up my home field.It works on anysite that has a search bar.
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That's COOL. I just right-clicked over the Search box on POA, added 'poa' as the keyword. Now I can find all threads containing certain keywords; ex, I can find all threads about logging time by typing "poa logging time" in the address bar. Thanks!
 
Another option for Firefox and Chrome users is to install the Ubiquity add-on to their browser. Ubiquity allows for quick web-lookups and redirects based on the highlighted text on the screen. Ubiquity has definitely streamlined the way I surf the web.

For example. Say you have an address on a webpage that you want to map. With Ubiquity installed, you can:
1. Use the mouse to highlight the address.
2. Launch Ubiquity by hitting 'Ctrl + Space'
3. Type 'map this' and hit Enter.
4. Ubiquity will launch a new browser loaded with the google maps location.

Ubiquity can perform a bunch of typical web lookups like: google, image (google image), define, tinyURL (and about 50 others).

You can also write your own Ubiquity commands, and so I wrote two commands to allow quick lookups of N-Numbers in recent flightaware.com flights, and for airnav lookup of airports. The commands are titled fa for flightaware and an for airnav.

Here are the scripts required to be able to 'fa this' and 'an this' in Ubiquity.

CmdUtils.makeSearchCommand({
name: "fa",
url: "http://flightaware.com/live/flight/{QUERY}",
parser: {container: "li.g.w0",
title: "h3.r",
preview: "div.s"}
});

CmdUtils.makeSearchCommand({
name: "an",
url: "http://www.airnav.com/airport/{QUERY}",
parser: {container: "li.g.w0",
title: "h3.r",
preview: "div.s"}
});

Feel free to contact me if you have any questions about getting these commands running with Ubiquity.
 
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