GS3000 - how to include a STAR

I am wondering the correct method of creating a flight plan externally from FS2020 to later be loaded and approach added.

Should the flight plan ONLY contain waypoints between the departure and arrival airports and NOT any manually added waypoints to allow the aircraft to join the airport circuit with downwind leg, base leg etc and then allow the G3000 to add a selected approach?

 

Also if I select the ILS approach (instead of leaving it at automatic) my flightplan approach is replaced with what I consider a strange approach - refer the following images - the first shows the approach when ILS approach is selected, the second image shows the approach from my loaded flight plan with approach left as automatic. Should the approach be set to automatic and adding an approach using the G3000? Is that the correct method?

Edited February 8, 2021 by jparnold
major change to most of it.

I am wondering the correct method of creating a flight plan externally from FS2020 to later be loaded and approach added.

Should the flight plan ONLY contain waypoints between the departure and arrival airports and NOT any manually added waypoints to allow the aircraft to join the airport circuit with downwind leg, base leg etc and then allow the G3000 to add a selected approach?

 

Also if I select the ILS approach (instead of leaving it at automatic) my flightplan approach is replaced with what I consider a strange approach - refer the following images - the first shows the approach when ILS approach is selected, the second image shows the approach from my loaded flight plan with approach left as automatic. Should the approach be set to automatic and adding an approach using the G3000? Is that the correct method?

 

Only create route waypoints because the default approaches all begin 15-20 miles from the airport and you'll need to select and load your approach long before you're in the circuit!

The 'strange' ILS approaches have been logged with Asobo and will hopefully be fixed soon. The flight planner always selects the destination airport NDB as a waypoint which makes you fly over and past the airport before turning back on the final approach. Very unrealistic.

I'm just about to try an RNAV approach which is a more reasonable flightpath to the final approach, and I'll manually tune the NAV1 to the ILS frequency before switching to APPR mode.

Thanks Tim

 

I am learning.

 

I had added extra waypoints on the flight plan after the initial flight plan was created by Simbrief by editing the waypoints made before exporting for FS2020 (I know that you use Little NavMap which I am looking at) not realising that the G3000 could add the (star) approach as I did not like what FS2020 was doing when I selected the ILS approach. I put it down to creeping OA :(

By the way, a STAR is not the same as an "approach". A Standard Terminal Arrival Route leads you to the correct position for an "approach". You might well fly a STAR, followed by an ILS approach. Could be a source of your confusion.

Thanks you are quite right and just a slip on my part.