Thanks guys, you know I'm only an enthusiast at best, so all this is really great, and useful too! Thanks for the time taken for your replies!
Following on though, if the (LAM? STAR) ends at the LAM hold, which it does obviously, then where abouts and how far out does it start/begin, geographically would help too! And what's an AIP? (something something procedure no doubt?)
I've seen on charts for the respective holds/approaches that there's a 222 degree track from the BNN hold for a 09L arrival. Do planes follow this or is this what we're talking about if there's a failure of some description? Or does the ATCO use this as a guide as such?
And that symbol I talked about does seem to be made up of 3 circles of "+" if you look very closely, othwerwise it appears to be dots as you said, is that a normal VOR?
Thanks for your help!
LJ