Hi HarvesteR

Success!!!

I completed your instructions, to the end.  The main aircraft parts higher in the hierarchy had already been resized by attaching them to a correctly sized box, taking on the properties of the box, and then deleting the boxes vertexes, leaving the part behind.  I didn't want to go through those steps with the animated parts because I would loose the animation.  That means that  some of the parts lower in the hierarchy and the animated parts are still sized incorrectly.
After following your instructions, those parts properties are still saying that they are way too big.  "???"  Non the less.  I tried the export, and this time it was clean and my aircraft appeared correctly within Flight sim along with the virtual cockpit.
So thanks for your help.  Now I can get a proper cockpit into this thing.

Harold