Try EFB you will not regret it.

Just had trial for 7 days out of 30 days - and bought it.

Never fly without it now.

 

 

Dean33

+1 for EFB, truely a brilliant piece of software and I too wouldn't fly without it now that I'm used to it!

 

What you see in EFB looks pretty much like the Jeppesen screenshot in one of the posts above and you'll be able to get this kind of visual cues for any SID & STAR.

I have no problems  hand-loading a FS Commander flight plan with SIDs Stars and transitions into the Q400 FMC. As some have mentioned, it can happen that a certain waypoint (including the ILS frequency) will not work with the Q400, because the latter uses its own AIRAC database. But I have had it happen only once. FS Commander DOES allow  visualisation of SIDs STARs and transitions, for example one clicks on "transitions, sids or stars" on the "sid star transitions" menu the on "select" and the trajectory of the sid, star or transition will appear on the map. Click on "add to plan". It could not be easier. Here is the whole procedure for a plan:

 

1) Press "new" on the flight plan menu.

2) type the starting and ending airports on the top line of the plan, for example "EGKK EHAM".

3) Choose a SID, STAR and Transition as described above. A short version of the pln will appear above the detaied flight plan, and the former is all that is required to enter into the FMC.

 

Henri