A specified flight path from a Terminal Area Entry Gate to the duty runway. Inbound aircraft are often issued with a STAR by the controller responsible for the adjoining airspace prior to being handed off to the Approach Controller. Also called Standard Terminal Arrival Route and STAR.
Standard Instrument Departure
A clearance issued to a departing aircraft before it taxies, giving details of the route and altitudes it is to fly from lift-off from the designated runway to the point at which it leaves the Terminal Area or intersects its outbound route. SIDs can be either a Radar SID or a Procedural SID.
STAR
A specified flight path from a Terminal Area Entry Gate to the duty runway. Inbound aircraft are often issued with a STAR by the controller responsible for the adjoining airspace prior to being handed off to the Approach Controller. Also known as Standard Terminal Arrival Route, Standard Arrival Route, and Standard Arrival.
STAR Speed Restriction
A limitation on an aircraft’s speed within the Terminal Area imposed to assist orderly processing of busy traffic. The speed is included with other information in an aircraft’s STAR clearance.