I was wondering how RC V3 handles SIDS and STARS. Do you have to build them into the flight plan? If so how do you find out which SID/STAR is in use at an airport in the real world? If you are on a long haul flight say 11 hours the STAR is going to change due to weather, so how do you find out what STAR is in use?Does RC v3 issue you a SID (as in 'clipper 248 after takeoff fly ELMAA SIX') or does it just clear you on to each waypoint one at a time? (Same question with STARS) What if your flight planner does not include SIDs and STARS and you have to insert each waypoint in the SID manualy, does RC3 recognise that as a SID or just treat it as part of the flight plan? Does it treat SIDs and STARs like that anyway regardless of what your flight plan is built like?So yeah... how are SIDs and STARS handled in RCv3?Thanks

Simple answer - they aren't. It would require the recording of over 5000 DP/STAR names, not to mention all the possible transitions, by the volunteers, and that's not going to happen.A couple points about this DP/STAR thing that comes up over and over and over.As for STARs, in the real world, controllers would rather vector you - as has been stated over and over by our resident controllers. They can get the patterns set up and handled far better than relying on pilots to follow a STAR.Secondly, one main point of using RC, or any ATC system, is that it is really good at getting you down and pointing you to the runway in a reasonable manner. If all you want to do is follow a plate, you don't need ATC. Just fly a plate in the lovely silence.However, that being said, yes, you can fly a DP and STAR, and yes, you have to have it in the plan. But you don't need it in the plan you send to RC. Make plans with common DP and STAR exit/entry points. When you run RC, check "Flex DP" and you can fly anywhere you want until that first waypoint RC knows about, or 40 miles from the airport, whichever is closer. For STARs, RC will expect you to fly what's in your plan up until 40 miles from the airport when you are handed to APC. So make your STAR at least up to 40 miles from the airport. At this point, when APC tells you to expect vectors, you can request an IAP to whatever runway you want, then fly it however you want. You get no vectors, no altitudes, no nothing. Silence until you are handed to Tower.Although there are many reasons to fly a DP/STAR, I like the vectoring. Gives me something to think about while I'm cleaning up the plane after take-off or prepping the plane for landing. I definitely fly STARs in mountainous regions, and that's when I almost always request an IAP. And I always have NOTAMs enabled in those areas in case Center wants to plow me into a mountain.

i think sids and stars are covered in the manual.you have to put the sid/dp checkpoints in the planstars are handled up until you contact approach. if you want to fly a specific approach, ask for an iap approach after talking to approach.read the tutorials, fly the tutorials, they teach you what you need to know