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Met Office Aeronautical Visualisation Service (MAVIS) |
A Skywise Alert published on 24 February advised:
The new integrated, regulated Met Office Aeronautical Visualisation Service (MAVIS®) is now operational, marking a significant step forward in supporting safer, smarter decision‑making.
Legacy Met Office aviation services will retire 24 March 2026. Aviation Briefing Service, HeliBrief, Network Weather Resilience and OpenRunway users should transition to MAVIS now, to maintain uninterrupted access to regulated aviation weather data.
MAVIS is evolving alongside the needs of the aviation sector. When new releases occur, you can find updates highlighted on our website along with our FAQs page which address a range of questions.
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It has been pointed out to AOPA, by a member, that the Tabular TAF and METAR reports provided by the Met Office Aviation Briefing Service (ABS) have not been included in the curent build as at 5 March 2025. If you would like to see these reports included in MAVIS, or indeed have any other feedback on MAVIS, do use the "Help Improve MAVIS" link when logged in to MAVIS - also please let AOPA know what improvements you would like so that, where there is suffcient demand, we can raise this with the relevant bodies:
In the meantime, the current ABS service is due to be retired on 24 March 2026. If, at this time, the tabular TAF and METAR reports have not been added to MAVIS, a workaround is to use the American Weather Service: https://aviationweather.gov/data/metar/ . At the time of publishing this news item, these links will duplicate the current ABS regional TAF and METAR reports:
South England, South Wales and Channel Islands
South-East England, East Anglia, Midlands and Wales
North England, Scotland and Ireland