Official 6th Annual Mudspike Christmas Flight 2020 - Discussion & AAR Thread

I have a question regarding flight planning for my 727.

The CIVA INS allows me to put in 9 lat/long coordinates.

This is fine for the en route fixes and waypoints, because Skyvector gives me coordinates for the INS.

It doesn’t appear to work very well for departures and arrivals, though, as it seems Australia’s SID and STAR procedure charts are all GNSS PBN based (I think - https://www.airservicesaustralia.com/aip/current/sup/a18-h05.pdf) and don’t actually state coordinates for me to enter to the INS.

So in practice, does this effectively limit me to using radar vector departures and just imagine that I have been vectored to my first en route fix and go with the INS from there?

Sorry if my question doesn’t make sense, I’m very new to this IFR stuff.

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