Is there any way to take a SID or a STAR out of the flight plan thru RC? I am began to see ATC is giving alot of direct to. Like tonight I tracked a flight from MOB to IAH. Which I fly alot. SJI is within the 30 mile radius. ATC did not require to hit the SJI before going to SNYDE. The sent them direct to SNYDE. I have the SJI in my flt plan but would like to take it out when im taking off from North to South. Taking off from South to North I can hit SJI since its 6.3 miles away.

Real life ATC will always give a flight a shortcut if possible. The DP given to you to fly, so if ATC doesn't get to you during climb, you have something to fly that will maintain separation from other aircraft. A lot of the time ATC will clear you to a waypoint, cutting the DP short, and they may even cut out waypoints enroute, letting you fly in more of a straight line. This becomes more common the higher you fly.This goes for vertical separation as well. Should the DP call for a step climb, but there is no other traffic around, expect to get cleared to go all the way up.As far as RC4 goes and the way it handles departure procedures, you can make that determination up yourself and skip the waypoints withing 30nm of the departure airport, as RC will not care what route you fly. You select the No Alt Restriction, RC will then not even care about your vertical profile. STARS in RC4 will always result in you being given vectors off the route, even if your initial heading is extremely close to what the STAR calls for, RC will vector you off, do the basic downwind, base, intercept headings, clearing you step by step down (too far down if you ask me). The best way to use RC4, or at least the way I do it, is to not include a SID in the flight plan, but do include the STAR, at least up until a common fix. Again, should you find the winds require a vector'd approach, you select the No DP mode, so RC will give you headings right from your takeoff clearance. You find you are going to fly a more precise departure, select the other options so you can take control. I say to include stars because there is no way to add them in. However you can take them out by just requesting direct to what ever the closest waypoint is to your destination. But like I said, RC4 will take you off your arrival route usually around the time you get passed to the TRACON, which is 40nm out.

Is there any way to take a SID or a STAR out of the flight plan thru RC? I am began to see ATC is giving alot of direct to. Like tonight I tracked a flight from MOB to IAH. Which I fly alot. SJI is within the 30 mile radius. ATC did not require to hit the SJI before going to SNYDE. The sent them direct to SNYDE. I have the SJI in my flt plan but would like to take it out when im taking off from North to South. Taking off from South to North I can hit SJI since its 6.3 miles away.

ideally, if you don't want them, you wouldn't have them in your .pln filesotherwise, you would ask for direct a checkpoint through the menus. once you are inside approach, approach is going to vector you anyway, regardless of what your .pln saysjd