Perhaps Hawaii screens are being used simply for marketing reasons since most of the target market is already familure with Hawaii/Pearl Harbor area meaning they have at least seen many pics of it.
Who.
FSX was in ST Marteen. FS9 Was in Seattle. FS2002 and predecessors around Chicago (before the American mafia closed Meigs)...
Who is SO familiar with Hawaii in FS? Beside Hawaiian people, mind? :-?
Why show screens of of areas most have no idea what it's suppose to look like?
Right you are. Who can ever being interested about those small, insignificant places lost in the sticks like New York, London, Paris, Tokyo, Rome and so on...