Standard Weather Briefing efficiency

So if I start my call with the info straight out, they should be ready?
I'll try that too.

On 22 May 2005 07:58:00 -0700, "Ben Hallert"
wrote:

So if I start my call with the info straight out, they should be ready?

Yes, they really should. They know they're going to have to write
something down 99.9 percent of the time, so they really should have
pen in hand when they answer the line.

So, I tried it today. I called up, then asked for a standard briefing
and started giving the briefer the spiel. The guy actually interrupts
me a couple sentences in and asks incredulously if I'm getting a
briefing or filing a flight plan. When I tell him it's a briefing, he
takes a firm grasp of the call and converts it back to the
question/answer format.

Well, I'll try the great experiment again next time. These McMinnville
FSS guys seem, based on my super limited sample size, pretty committed
to that format.