SID & STAR: KPHX → KLAS

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.

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.

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.

A departure is three choices, and this is all three: the runway, the SID, and the en-route transition that hands you to the airway structure. After INSERT the F-PLN carries exactly that route after KPHX — BXK, the Buckeye VORTAC, and then the transition you picked — and none of the transitions you did not. It is a real Phoenix departure from the FAA's own coded procedure data (CIFP), the same cycle airlines fly; the FAA does not code every departure an airport publishes, so the list can still be shorter than the chart set.

ARRIVAL> is 1R on the destination's LAT REV, and the arrival is a pick in two levels, approach first: the approach decides the runway, and the runway decides which branch of the STAR you fly. If the approach offers a choice of APPR VIAS — the feeder routes onto final — the page asks for one before the STARs; where only one fits the arrival you pick, it selects itself. INSERT then puts the STAR, the VIA and the final approach into the plan before KLAS, in the order you fly them.