TUTORIAL: How to read SID, STAR, transition and approach charts | MSFS 2020 | FSX | P3D | X-Plane

[@raymondjackson6069]

Very hard to follow, but absolutely necessary to understand modern aviation. Keep it up, much needed.

[@stu3tristan9x9]

One of the best tutorials on reading SIds and Stars I feel. Erudite, full of clear and lucid explanations. Thank you so much Filbert

[@FilbertFlies]

Oh, thank you very much for taking the time to say so. I spent a very long time producing this one and, being on a relatively niche subject compared with what I usually do, it's had relatively few views and comments like this make it all feel worthwhile. 🙂

[@miketendler]

I confess, I am already quite comfortable following SIDs and STARs and the charts all make sense to me - but I do always think I would find it hard to actually explain them to somebody else! Now I know what I will do -- I'll simply send them here! It's a great overview and very well explained. Bravo, well done sir.

[@FilbertFlies]

Thank you! Of all my videos, this was the hardest to do and one of the least popular, but I'm pleased with it. 🙂

[@scottishrebels]

Absolutely first class presentation. Very informative and extremely helpful. Thank you for taking the time to do this. Liked and subscribed

[@pcos8337]

Beautifully done. Thank you for taking the time to deliver this in such a clear manner!

[@IVIenac3]

Heard you mention this in the Aspen stream you recently did. Found this incredibly helpful, thanks for the time you took putting this together.

[@FilbertFlies]

Pleasure, glad you found it useful!

[@DaveHudson70]

Fantastic tutorial. This complimented my new Navi-graph subscription so much....thank you so much.

[@FilbertFlies]

Pleasure 🙂

[@flightzilla9279]

Brilliant tutorial Filbert- very in depth! And when I thought I was pretty clued up, I still managed to learn a lot!! Thank you very much👍

[@FilbertFlies]

Excellent, I'm really pleased you found it helpful. Thanks for the feedback. :-)

[@MahlonBouldin]

Thanks so much for making this tutorial and explaining the SIDS, STARS, approaches and transitions. I could never find all the pieces of the puzzle, but this seems to nail it. All of your videos are fantastic, and I've subscribed.

[@FilbertFlies]

My pleasure! Glad you found it useful. I spent longer on this video than any of my others yet it's one of my least viewed, so it's always nice to hear it's proven useful 🙂

[@srn4couk]

Thank you for this, very clearly presented, it will certainly help me understand the huge amount of info shown on these charts

[@torbenjarlandersen134]

Nicely done. One thing on the NEXEN departures not mentioned in the video is the note below the NameID: (Jets Only). This procedure is not for propeller aircrafts. On VATSIM I've often seen pilots filing NEXEN departures using a turboprop or vice versa - filing a prop deprture when flying a jet.

[@infocusphotographyandvideo]

Thankyou. I am not IFR rated. But extremley helpful tutuorial. You clarified the workings quite nicely for me.

[@taharbenseddik5607]

Studying this SID,'s with the exelent explanation is very interesting. Just like with the STAR's.

[@krispex1974]

Thank you for posting this - really helpful 👍😊

[@FilbertFlies]

Pleasure - I'm glad you've found it useful 🙂

[@get_outdoors]

Brilliant, I’m going to have to watch this a few times but very informative 👍

[@jep1103]

Well explained starting to make sense.👍

[@Fran_1023_]

Excellent video! thank you!

[@theoneandonly690]

This is fantastically done, thankyou!

[@gabriele5931]

This is so userful, thank you!

[@jakew9887]

Great presentation. Thanks

[@johnalmond5444]

Expertly done, very succinct and straightforward, a welcome tutorial for us desktop fliers! Thank you FYI I use SimPlates by Dauntless Aviation for charts. John

[@FilbertFlies]

My pleasure and thanks for the feedback. It's always worrying doing a new type of video and it's good to hear that it was straightforward to follow.

[@JenniferinIllinois]

Wait, you're supposed to use charts when you fly? Hehehe.. Very informative and cleared up a couple things I have been confused about.

[@xkris1000]

Great Video. One question: If the altitude constraint is touched to a leg instead of a waypoint (see 20:00 in the video), at what point do I have to be on that altitude. Before the leg starts or while I'm on the leg?

[@JerDog1984]

Fantastic. Thank you!

[@danielteodorof7166]

Helped so much! Thank you!

[@FilbertFlies]

Ah good! My pleasure. 🙂

[@jep1103]

Very nice well explained

[@aarndub0760]

In america you normally have a transition in the sid how do you know what transition to use

[@astromidas4921]

Really useful and clear tutorial - thanks. One question on the speeds indicated in the charts - for the glide slope calculation it uses ground speed, but when there is a maximum speed in the approach charts for example I presume that is air speed? Is that correct?

[@FilbertFlies]

Yes indeed, the maximum speeds are all IAS. Glad you found it clear and useful.🙂

[@marksansom6664]

@@FilbertFlies Thanks for the confirmation

[@ronanderson2130]

I enjoy your airport reviews and as a result I own 8 airports after watching your reviews. Could you review Aerosoft Greater Moncton. I was born in New Brunswick so keen on seeing this airport..

[@FilbertFlies]

Glad you're enjoying the reviews. I've got to be honest, I've got quite a big backlog to get through and not enough hours in the day, so I'm not sure I'll be able to do Greater Moncton. I'm having to be quite selective - I'm focussing on big airports that I know will have a broad appeal, and throwing in a few from smaller developers that I think are good and which people might not otherwise discover. But will try! :-)

[@DracoxRPG]

This was great! One of the questions I always have is "how do you know which STARs and SIDS to use?" Is this mainly based of weather/wind direction? Might seem like a silly question but I've always wondered how do you pick the runways and whatnot. :)

[@FilbertFlies]

So the choice of runway is almost always weather dependent. You'll almost always take off and land into the wind, unless the wind speed is very slow or the airport has a preferential runway system. The choice of SID is dependent on your initial flight plan waypoint & the runway you'll be taking off from. The choice of STAR is dependent on your final flight plan waypoint and SOMTIMES the runway you'll be landing on. Certain STARs are specific to a single runway, others can be used for multiple runways.

[@DracoxRPG]

@@FilbertFlies Awesome! Thanks for the info and kind of what I was thinking. I just found your channel and subscribed and really liking your videos thus far.

[@Justathought81]

Much appreciated

[@jomckarth4836]

very usefull, thank you!

[@jomckarth4836]

Btw, do i need a VATSIM account to use Chartfox?

[@boblogan4695]

First class!

[@martincarstensen8527]

it gets too nerdy now