Looks like we have succeeded, just received a Met Office flyer saying the TAFs and METARS are back as a "New Feature"

Logged on to the system only to find my account blocked.

I'm supposed to use the code sent in my confirmation email - except I never got one. So good to see such mastery of IT from the Met Office

Well step in the right direction.
Pity that it now needs two sheets of paper to print what would fit on one!

Well just had a quick look, as of now, as shown requires three pages to print.

Can't they format it so that it fits one page :ugh:

Any idea where I now can obtain (for free!!!) Met Form 214/215 please?

I'm still waiting for a reply to the e-mail I sent them a month ago, concerning the non-availability of the 'Global TAF and METAR search' function in their new web****e....:confused:

What EXACTLY was wrong with the old system?

I've been using along with everyone else perfectly well for years.

Seems like the new site has been designed by some spotty-faced computer geek/web designer:ugh: rather than someone who understands the needs of pilots - which I thought the site was aimed exclusively at?!

Spanner,

It is that long held unwritten rule in this country - if something works, change it. Then think of a plausible reason for why you did so. And if you can't think of plausible one, then come up with an implausible one.

SpannerInTheWerks, I agree with you! I think the new site is aimed at kids and their iToys, hence the stupidly large font.

Rather like the abysmal new 'Adobe DC' which they're trying to foist on people....:mad: It took me ages to find out how to get rid of it and return to Adobe Reader XI.

Four Reds
Follow the link on the new GA website 214 & 215 are still there.

I had setup an account for the new system, was working fine. But as I login today it's asking for more information, I fill in the information and then it says it's not complete :ugh: so can't login

Apparently the Metoffice has received some awards for customer service.

A bit like those awards you see in the Fish and Chip shops, you know the sort, some kind of fish fryers association no one's heard about. :rolleyes:

Its the way of the World, collecting badges to make up for how useless they really are.

Hi Glide1. Found. Many thanks.
F.R.

oh dear, oh dear...the new Met Office GA site..

Why oh why change a perfectly functioning website offering up to date wx information which can be easily downloaded to any smart phone, even with the poorest of signal, to this blingy new site requiring a high speed internet connection.


Getting METARs and TAFs out in the back and beyond on my iPhone is vital for flight safety, especially recently with the fog etc the met office should realize that it is not always possible to get the weather from a desktop in a nice warm office...

I can use the TAFs and METAR page on the old site sometimes every few minutes looking for a trend with the weather etc..I don't need a map or the adverts clogging things up..

I cannot get the TAFs and METARs page on my iPhone using the new site for some reason, I even emailed the link to myself but no luck with that either..but I can on my desktop..

Why didn't they just add a few more products to the old site, without all the re registering etc..
Who knows they may extent the cut off date on the old site for a little longer? :confused:

Well that's the reason it changed, adverts.
Got to offset the money they lost losing the BBC contract.

I registered in the hope that it would be an improvement over the old system.

If I said I was disappointed I would be making an understatement, especially as I was earlier this year invited to a met office consulatation on the matter at a well known heliport.

As far as professional aviation goes, it's been rendered more or less unfit for purpose. :ugh:

You must be one of the few! The wider Industry has never been consulted. It seems the only way to progress this is to flood the Met Office and the Regulator with complaints.

I followed their instructions to access the new site using my existing username and password. It didn't work on the new site. After a few email exchanges with their "help desk" I was told that I would have to register using a new username because someone else had registered on the new site using my username. That also meant a new password as the two were now incompatible.

If it ain't broke don't fix it.

Is it worth considering a Government petition? This is after all a safety issue.

Which is the province of the Regulator; unfortunately the internal demolition of the CAA means they no longer have anyone who understands the issue either.