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Originally Posted by von Tom
Hi Rob,
I can answer that question : ). The standard arrival route (STAR clearance) is issued by the enroute controller when the aircraft is still 100-200 nautical miles out. Sydney has a handful of them, depending upon the direction you are.............
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This is correct.
In practice for MEL-SYD flight crew often load the expected arrival to into the flight management systems prior to departure (time permitting), but that said, Sydney has penchant for changing runways at seemingly random and rather odd times...shall we say for noise mittigation...to the point it's now a Forrest-Gump-like cliche':
"Sydney ( ATC ) is like a box 'o choco-lates..you never know what you're going to get"
