SID & STAR: KPHX → KLAS

Step-by-step: SID & STAR: KPHX → KLAS

1. Enter the route. Type KPHX/KLAS and press 1R.

   Phoenix to Las Vegas is one of the busiest short-haul routes in the southwest — Southwest runs it hourly. Short, but both ends have real published procedures, which makes it good first SID/STAR practice.

2. Set the cruise level. Type 280 and press 6L.

   A leg this short is mostly climb and descent with almost no cruise. FL280 gives you a real top-of-descent without wasting fuel climbing higher than you can use.

3. Open the departure. Press F-PLN, then press 1L on the KPHX row to open LAT REV.

   LAT REV at the origin airport is the ONLY place on the MCDU to pick a SID — the DEPARTURE prompt lives here. There is no dedicated departures key.

4. Press 1L (<DEPARTURE). Pick the BUCKEYE SID — press 3L next to it — then 5R to INSERT.

   After INSERT, the SID waypoint (BXK, the Buckeye VORTAC) drops into the F-PLN after KPHX. This is Phoenix's real charted departure, from the same FAA 28-day NASR cycle airlines fly.

5. Now the arrival. Press 4L on the KLAS row for LAT REV, then 1R (ARRIVAL>), pick a STAR, and 5R to INSERT.

   ARRIVAL> is 1R on the destination's LAT REV. Picking a STAR inserts Las Vegas's arrival waypoints before KLAS — a complete procedural skeleton from Phoenix's runway to Vegas's.