Problem is the met office site is such a ball ache to get into and also use and if the computer your on has been set up to not allow cookies etc you are stuffed. Which is the case with a large number of airports flight planning computers in C.
Commercial crews pick up briefing packs from the likes of crew briefing.
Or if you want a few quick TAF's and metars I use ADDS.
If anyone from the met office is reading a suggestion.
HAve a site say aviation.metoffice.co.uk
No log in required.
On it have the basic aviation stuff ie TAFs METARS, 214 and 215.
Nothing fancy with interfaces just direct links straight to printable pages.
Seems daft that the majority of people shun the original provider of the data to only use third party providers because its quicker and easier than using the metoffice.
Getting into and ferretting out the info on the metoffice site takes longer than opening and printing a 6 sector day briefing pack. Why you might ask would a commercial pilot want the metoffice stuff. Well actually its quite nice to have the area sheets of TAFS and Metars when your hunting to find alternates and when its one of these days you want the big picture when RVR's is the word of the day on approaches.
We want to be able to be able to sit in front of a computer and in under 30seconds have the current data for a quick look. The site needs to be able to operate quickly on the slowest most out of date heap of crap computer thats still in excistance or be able to be accessed with minimal bandwidth for the mobile pilot on a phone.
Yes you can have your fancy stuff that people pay for and keep the current method of gaining entry for that.
The current wx that promotes flight safety make it the easiest thing ever to get access to.