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I'm trying to put an object into FS2002 to figure out how all this works. I just made a basic sphere and colored it in gmax. I followed the tutorial instructions to export it and it seemed to be working OK, but nothing showed up in the flight sim. I was trying to put a sphere at the end of the runway at Meigs field (since that is the default start location when you fire up flight sim). Here are the steps I followed:
1. make sphere and save it it gmax
2. start FS, start a flight at Meigs field
3. In slew mode, backed up a bit so I could see then end of runway
4. In gmax exported it to these coordinates: N41* 51.19  W87*36.45 HDG 358
5. In FS, clicked on 'World' and 'Scenery Library', clicked OK. It loaded up.
6. according to the tutorial, I should have seen my sphere there but it wasn't.

Can anyone tell me why this didn't work or what I'm doing wrong?

Thank you;
Christine

Did you put it at the right altitude? Meigs is around 600 feet above sea level if I remember correctly. I am currently in Europe lol. The sim may have loaded it, just stuck it way way down in the ground.