Here are a couple more questions I thought of when looking over some charts:

1) When looking at Take-off Minimums I noticed that some looked liked this:

Take-Off Minimums: Rwy 36, 300-2 or std. with min. climb of 280' per NM to 1000.

My question is what does the 300-2 mean?

2) Are STARs flied with the original flight plan or are they set while in flight when landing direction and such are determined? Also are they required, or are they just a suggestion to pilots coming from the general direction of the STAR?

3) When using fixes/intersections/reporting points (BTW, what is the official name of those and what are the different kinds?) while navigating, is there a way to pick them up in the cockpit on instruments, or do you use a radial from another nav aid to determine your position relative to the point?

Thanks for info,
Brian

300 foot ceiling and two miles visibility. Stars can be filed beforehand or they can be assigned enroute. If you don't want to deal with it indicate NO SID/NO STAR when filing a flight plan. I am not sure about what you mean in the third question. Intersections may be identified using two nav radios, GPS, Loran, or DME.

Each fix has it's own way of being identified. It can be as CODY said, an intersection of two radials, a bearing off an NDB, a DME,fix, Loran, GPS, or radar. The chart will tell you how to identify the fix.

An intersection is a type of fix along with a DME fix, and so on. A fix may or may not be a reporting point for you to call into ATC with a position report if not in a radar environment.

If you say No SIDs No Stars. They are still given to you only they are read in clearance form over the radio/phone wasting time. A SID or a Star is a clearance already printed and charted for you. If you don't have it they simply read it to you for you to copy.

1)300-2 are the takeoff minimums 300ft cig w/ 2mi vis.
2)SID's and STARS should be filed with the original flightplan, it helps alleviate controller duties since it's a published procedure, the pilots will already know what they're doing.
3)Fixes are usually defined by navaids (radials,DME, etc....) they can also be define simply lat/long. Reporting points are either compulsary (report to controlling agency when over) or non-compulsary (for position reference), and again can be navaid referenced or lat/long. Intersections are just that intersections. Fixes, reporting points, intersections can be picked up by cockpit instruments if they are identified with land based navaids, however if your aircraft is equipped with GPS, INS, or an FMS system, it will give you deviation from course on your HSI. There may be more variation in instrument display depending on your cockpit configuration, EFIS or analog, and type of equipment, but from what I've seen that's how it works.ADIOS