Hello
I wanted to do a flight out of KORD but I could not find any departures - both simbrief and navigraph do not show any departures for any of the many runways.
Why is this?
All departures from KORD are via vectors by ATC. There are no published SIDs.
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Chicago does have a handful of RNAV approaches and departures. It’s just so busy they more often than not use radar vectors
Thanks Guys - seems weird but ok 
I didn’t know this. Where are these published?
I think this is fairly common in the USA.
O’Hare has ONE published departure which is the O’HARE 8. Just about every other large airport in the US has several published departure procedures, but not ORD. IRL, this makes life easy just having one departure and it does seem quite odd to only have 1 departure procedure at such a large and busy airport. It’s a very simple procedure as well with just 2 altitude requirements. There is also a speed restriction to stay at 250 or less until advised. Normally, when reaching 10,000 feet, speed can be increased but not here. 250 has to be maintained. This speed limit is on the chart, but habits can be hard to break. I may or may not have exceeded this speed once IRL, but the controller was nice about it and gave me a friendly warning for next time operating out of ORD to not go faster than 250 until advised.
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