Dennis Johnson wrote:

Let's say I want to file a standard instrument arrival route (STAR)
on my IFR flight plan. For example, flying to Henderson Executive
(KHND), south of Las Vegas. I want to fly from Palmdale VOR (PMD) to
Hector VOR (HEC) to BASAL intersection to Daggett VOR (DAG), to
Henderson (HND) airport.
Daggett VOR is on my route of flight and is also a transition point
for the Clarr Two Arrival. The computer code for the Daggett
transition to the Clarr Two arrival is DAG.CLARR2.

I've checked the AIM and both my FAA instrument flying textbooks and
all I came up with was to file the STAR by listing DAG.CLARR2 in the
route of flight area of the flight plan. Okay, that's clear enough.

But do I list DAG VOR as the last fix before listing DAG.CLARR2? For
example, I could file a route of flight like so:

PMD HEC BASAL DAG DAG.CLARR2

Or do I omit DAG as the last fix before writing DAG.CLARR2 because
it's obvious that I'm going to DAG VOR, like so:

PMD HEC BASAL DAG.CLARR2

I know a human at ATC wouldn't have a problem either way, but I'm
worrying that the computer will reject it if I do it wrong. I could
take the easy way out and not file a STAR, but I figure this is good
practice and it's always fun to learn something new.


File just one DAG.