That letter, quoted above from API (if true) illustrates what's gone wrong.
LIPS/API was set up, around 2004 and promoted as a program to exclusively look after emma-rates pilots. Non-profit mutual. With Directors who were also the same.
Harvey Watt were HIRED as a commercial medical specialist service provider, year-to-year, simply to make medical recommendations (NOT decisions). Directors (fellow ee-kay pilots, remember, whom you could phone anytime & sit down with) would then make the decision. Looking after pilots.
Many of us joined, in good faith, on this basis.
If API is now clearly stating Harvey Watt is calling all the shots on which pilot gets paid, that is a total reversal of the original intent. Tail-wagging-the-dog.
And all without proper notice to Members. Wake up; a single, unelected individual; PD (shown in weird video above) is making all these changes, unauthorised by members. Same guy, PD, wrote the content of that letter. He's not even an emma-rates pilot any more.
The other pilot 'Consultants' are either; walking away or doing nothing.
Why would any pilot hand their fate & family's financial future over to Harvey Watt Inc., when the plan is neither underwritten or insured against legal actions. A single successful lawsuit, or even just the cost defending decisions (made by an unrelated, for-hire service provider, Harvey Watt) can deplete the entire fund.
If Harvey Watt is making decisions, then surely legal liability should be with them, and the fund not be using pilot members' money to defend against legal action.
And why are offshore API pilot 'Consultants' needed or paid, if all decisions are outsourced & fully automatic?
Last edited by 777-Up; 20th Jan 2018 at 04:43.