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I know you use SID's when depating and STAR's when arriving...but suppose I am going to depart Laguardia....or any airport(preferablly Unites States)...and using runway 4...well how do I know which SID to use???...I have the departure plate and everything but how do I know which one to use(do I just pick one)...also how do I know what STAR to pick on the arrival I have all the plates(U.S. ones)???....if you can help thanks

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I don't recomend using SID's for appr. and STARS for dep. I don't know how it will work since they are SID's are made for departures, if it will be easy to use one for an appr.

Choosing which chart! Simply depends on the direction you're heading or comming from, I recon!

In the real world sids and stars are selected by the tower I beleive and which one they select for you to fly depands on several things, such as how much traffic is in the are at the time which way the wind is blowing and from which way are you flying from or to and at what altitude you are at. I use to work at KJAX(jacksonville int.) and I use to hear the tower tell a departing aircraft to fly soggy one then proceed as filed. I thought that had something to to with rain in the area untill I foud out this is one of the SIDS that jax uses for departing aircraft going to the south or south east, when taking of from runway 25. You would not use this SID for a north or west depature. I would imagine that would applay to STARS as well. So I would use the approaite SID and Star based on the way I was going to depart for the SIDs and my approcah direction for the STARs  8)

Use a STAR that gets yu going the direction you want to fly.  Use a SID the starts from the direction you are flying from.   Gary is right, most of the time ATC assigns the STAR or SID depending on weather conditions or traffic.  For FS2002 just use SID or STAR that has a transistion along your route of flight.

The ATC usually assigns SIDs and STARS but I don't know that much about FS as far as SIDs and STARS go . There is the problem that FS does not use HF for trans-oceanic communications though (so much for as real as it gets).