We provide real benefits to our insured pilots by promoting pilot well-being through programs of prevention, early intervention and medical assistance. By focusing on these three levels of service to provide a viable benefit to pilots, we can get them back to work sooner than when unassisted.

Education
We believe that the best way to protect pilots is to keep them in the cockpit. Education is the key to awareness. That's why we've published the Aviation Medical Bulletin for over 30 years. Our bulletin is a well known publication filled with up-to-date, helpful information that is particularly relevant to those whose good health is critical to their livelihood. The popularity of the Aviation Medical Bulletin is derived from its concise, understandable format. Pilots and their families read it, like it and learn from it.

Prevention
While today's lifestyles are better and people are generally healthier, most people don't take their health seriously until they're faced with a problem. This situation can frequently be changed through pro-active attention to health and preventive medical input. Providing personal preventive medical information services to our clients is invaluable. Our medical department staff will interface with pilots and their individual attending physician to make sure the right steps, treatment and medication are being prescribed, to both solve the medical problem and allow continued flying, where possible.

Re-certification Assistance
Our medical re-certification support system is unique in the industry. We have over fifty years of experience at assisting in the rehabilitation and re-certification of pilots who lose their license due to a medical disability. The worst thing that can happen to disabled pilots is to be out longer than necessary because they're not seeing the right people to solve their problem or they aren't familiar with the "ropes" for re-certification.

Utilizing Harvey Watt & Company, pilots will have direct, toll-free access to assistance in the following:

QAeromedical resource regarding:

QFederal Aviation Administration regulations and special requirements which must be met in order for pilots with certain medical conditions to fly.

Q Medications that are acceptable or not acceptable to the F.A.A.

Q We have years of experience working the Federal Air Surgeon's office and the Aeromedical Certification office in Oklahoma City. As a result, we know the intricacies of the system, and can often significantly shorten a pilot's down time and expedite his/her return to flying.

Q Years of hands-on involvement with chemical/alcohol dependency cases with knowledge of the multiple resources required to minimize the time for re-certification.

Q Interpretation of all the F.A.A. medical standards and policies of Part 67.13 of the F.A.R.'s which oftentimes are not specific and need interpretation.

Q Provide aeromedical input to disabled pilots with emphasis on expeditious return to flying.

Goals
Q Provide Pilots with the Best Possible Medical Support
Q Manage Overall Disability Process
Q Reduce The Pilots' Losses Due to: Disability
                                                   Reduction of Income

Objective:
The objective of our Medical Assistance program is to help pilots improve their health awareness, avoid disabilities where possible and - when disabled - get them back on flight status as soon as possible, within the parameters of aviation safety.

Experience:
Our experience tells us that Medical Assistance is critical to the success of any disability plan. Since 1951, we have been working with pilots, the F.A.A. and the aviation medical community to minimize the impact of disability on flying careers. Our experience tells us that, in the vast majority of cases, when a pilot isn't back on flight status within 18 to 24 months, it is likely that the pilot will never go back to the cockpit. Therefore, aggressive and supportive Medical Assistance is critical - and the sooner the better.

Harvey Watt & Company's Medical Department is headed by Audie Davis, M.D. Prior to joining us in September of 1996, Dr. Davis spent 25 years as the head of the FAA Aeromedical Certification Branch.

If anyone knows the system, Dr. Davis does.
If anyone can keep pilots in the cockpit, Harvey Watt & Company can.

Our 50+ years of experience in medical assistance and supervision of claimants, definitely show that we get pilots back on flight status sooner than when unassisted. Significant dollars will be saved when we assist pilots back to the cockpit 3 months, 6 months or a year earlier than might otherwise be the case. On occasion, we'll help a pilot back where they would otherwise have been out permanently. In those situations, the benefit will be immeasurable.