Hey guys,
Back in the day (May 2013) I joined EuroHarmony as an offline pilot, happy and convinced enough with my MSFS addon, Radar Contact. But then I joined IVAO, where human pilots meet human controllers, following published ICAO procedures, delivering a whole further level of realism to flying experience only achieved by online flying. Early enough though, I realized that EHM's livery was for some reason missing from the IVAO MTL, although the callsign was still valid and correctly associated both in IvAc and on WebEye as EuroHarmony, and furthermore, EHM's liveries were also on the catalog, but no longer in the installable library.
Going through the EHM forums I've found a post according to which EHM's IVAO membership as a VA was revoked for not enough active registered pilots, which was from 2012...I also asked around on the IVAO forums, according to whom even EHM's callsign was already removed, only the mentioned software work with the old catalog still.
Nevertheless, that got me down enough, suddenly delivering the first ever negative impression I've ever had since the day I joined EuroHarmony. I love the fleet (especially the ability to use my much loved PMDG a/c with EHM), and the routes too, covering and even directly connecting several of my favorite European airports together. So here's my real question: since EHM is still an active airline, what happened to our online backbone? Is the airline today more focused on VATSIM, or rather flying offline? I understand that IVAO is a difficult world with far stricter expections, but -- according to the airline history -- once we did it, is there a chance that we ever will again?
Lastly, I believe my post may have gone a little bit more off-topic than I meant it to be, I'd just like to know if it's still worthwhile to fly the EHM callsign on IVAO.
P.S. I understand online flying is not a requirement at EuroHarmony and I am not trying to influence anyone into anything, I am just driven by curiosity and a touch of sadness to get a view on what happened to something that once, at least for a while, used to work.
P.P.S. To anyone else still flying EHM on IVAO, my greetings to those of you (also, my greetings to everyone taking the while to look at, and, maybe, answer on my topic)!
Thanks in advance for any positive answer.