I think you may be on to something here. I may have installed the wrong fsx sdk. I have two versions of fsx: fsx deluxe and fsx gold. I never installed the sdk when I originally installed fsx so I loaded the disk and browsed to the exe file. I didn't notice until after I installed it that I had grabbed the deluxe box instead of the gold box which is the version of fsx that I am using. Not sure if the sdk is the same for both of them. If the sdk is the same then I must be doing something wrong with installing the file to the scenery folder. I will look at your suggestions and work on it some mo