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A TRANSITION is just a way of getting from the initial portion of the STAR to the instrument approach that you'll be using. Note this quote from chapter three of the FAA's Instrument Procedures Handbook: This often results in a seamless transition between the en route, arrival, and approach phases of flight, and serves as a preferred route into high volume terminal areas. It sounds as if you're thinking of "via" as a procedure, in itself. It's just another way of saying "by way of" or "using the following path." When I drive from my home in Denver to Kansas City, I go via I-70. That's shorter than saying that I travel on Interstate 70. A STAR is literally just a preplanned clearance that saves the controller from having to give a long-winded clearance, and the pilot from having to copy it. Note this quote from chapter three of the FAA's Instrument Procedures Handbook: A STAR is an ATC-coded IFR route established for application to arriving IFR aircraft destined for certain airports. A STAR provides a critical form of communication between pilots and ATC. Once a flight crew has accepted a clearance for a STAR, they have communicated with the controller what route, and in some cases what altitude and airspeed, they fly during the arrival, depending on the type of clearance. The STAR provides a common method for leaving the en route structure and navigating to your destination. It is a preplanned instrument flight rule ATC arrival procedure published for pilot use in graphic and textual form that simplifies clearance delivery procedures. The principal difference between standard instrument departure (SID) or departure procedures (DPs) and STARs is that the DPs start at the airport pavement and connect to the en route structure. STARs on the other hand, start at the en route structure but do not make it down to the pavement. This is primarily because STARs serve multiple runways and sometimes multiple airports. You can find that manual here. You can find pointers to the FAA's aviation handbooks and manuals on this page. There's a tremendous amount of information available for the downloading, or even just for reading online. There's nothing mysterious about it, though it takes time and effort to go through the publications to find information.

UTX does a decent job in the U.S. ORBX Base and Vector cover the whole world, and make (IMHO) the whole world somewhat prettier in the bargain. Be sure to try the ORBX free demos (PNW and Tasmania, small areas of their respective regions), too. And the ORBX free airports package fits in better with the Base and Vector. Add in OpenLC North America and you have a much better package than UTX can provide, even within the U.S. I have all of those, and I much prefer the ORBX stuff. In many respects, UTX earlier version was better than the current version, largely because of their goofy looking roads in the latter, even though some features were added to the later version. I still use the UTX Alaska for areas not covered by the Southern Alaska region in ORBX. No doubt you'll get differing opinions from some here, though, as so much depends on what you want out of the package and what type of "flying" you do. If it's mostly airline stuff, the ORBX isn't quite the advantage (other than airports themselves) over UT that it is for those of us who fly lower and slower a lot, though it's still great stuff either way.

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Did you actually put the folders in the Add-On Scenery folder or did you just move the individual files? Your phrasing indicated you put the folders in there. If so, you must go through the procedures to add each folder to the Scenery Library. If you only copied files in there, they should work.

I've got you beat by 5 years...

Probably the biggest help to me is that I mostly fly multiplayer with a friend of 40 years, who I used to fly for in the '70s. We fly different areas (a lot of it in ORBX, but not all), fly a lot of formation, put on airshows for each other, comment on the various things we see, often relating them to the real world, enjoying the scenery and looking for small strips we've not been to before, etc. Also, we've collaborated on making an add-on or two for ourselves, enhanced various airports, etc.

This FAQ is about flying techniques and real aviation matters. Many answers have been pulled from the existing FAQs and from the forums , where a lot of good information has been posted by many experienced pilots and flight instructors. Don't forget to check out the See also line at the bottom of many of these pages. The idea is to collect all this into one place, for easier reference. I'd also like to add a note that is at the bottom of the menu page for this FAQ: Note: Throughout this FAQ, there are a number of highlighted terms, or links, that when clicked will give a definition or additional reference. These terms also appear in the Glossary section below. For most of these terms, you can get more detailed (and often much more complete) information by searching for that same term in Wikipedia at: Wikipedia Main Page (English). There is a search box on the left side of this Wikipedia main page. Another good source of real world information is the FAA's online Aeronautical Information Manual, or AIM. And you can get numerous FAA references at the FAA's Regulations & Policies site. If you just want the FARs ( Federal Aviation Regulations ) you may click on the highlight at left. 14 CFR Parts 61 and 91 contain the most important regulations for pilots, though many others are pertinent. And you can go to the AOPA's web site for current information on aviation, along with some good information on learning to fly (Training and Safety tab). I'd also like to make this request, as I've done on the first page of the FAQ: If anyone has suggestions on more categories, or on rearrangement of what is here, please bring it up first in the "discussion" tab, or PM me on flightsim.com forums. This is far from all inclusive, and I'd love to see it expanded beyond what I can do alone. Larry