How could you not be impressed? Flight looks nothing like FSX except for the clouds. Other than that, it looks almost completely new. (New and much better than the crappy default fsx scenery)
I am not impressed at all because on those screenshots, Flight looks like nothing more than FSX with alternative ground/rock textures. The scenery casting shadows on autogen objects are still the one and only new feature that we could see so far.
Sure, you can load FSX up with a bunch of payware add-ons and get it to look about as good as Flight. But Flight looks just as good, if not better out of the box...and likely not just in Hawaii,
Aren't you getting a bit too optimistic here ? It's quite obvious that Hawaii islands will be quite detailled (but still imprecise, if you compare with Google Earth pictures), but I really don't think that the whole world will get such a "precise" landclass. What we're seeing in those shots is just the Flight-equivalent of FSX's St-Marteen island. St-Marteen sure looked good in default FSX, but the rest of the world was not as much detailled (appart from the official "detailled" cities/airports). It will be just the same in Flight, just for different places.
depending on if they are working out the horrible airport background textures and silly landclass transitions. Imagine what add-on developers could do with Flight after they get their hands on it...
They could do exactely the same than OrbX guys could do with FSX, from what I've seen so far. Flight is taking the same path than FSX took. FS9 had some landclass terrain types, FSX had much more, and hopefully Flight will get much more than FSX too, but there is nothing impressive or unexpected here.