[Psychophysiologic pattern of pilot's activity during flight as a basis for setting up his workplace]. / Psikhofiziologicheskaia struktura deiatel'nosti letchika v polete kak osnova postroeniia ego robochego mesta.

The psychophysiological pattern of a pilot is considered on the basis of experiments made during flights. Five components of his activity, which may be estimated, are identified. These include sensory, motor, autonomic, occupational, and psychological components. The "reserves of attention" are singled out as an objective independent parameter that characterizes the activity of a pilot. Five determinants of the level of physiological responses are identified in a pilot during flight. Their mechanisms are most efficiently analyzed in terms of the basic concepts developed by P.K. Anokhin, P.V. Simonov, K.V. Sudakov. The objective activity estimates make it possible to assess the adequacy of a working place to the problems to be solved, to apply the anthrocentric principle in working out the pilot's working place by taking into account his psychophysiological capacities.

[The outlook for improved medical control over the health status of the flight personnel in a military unit]. / Perspektivy sovershenstvovaniia meditsinskogo kontrolia za sostoianiem zdorov'ia letnogo sostava v voiskovom zvene.

The article studies methodological and methodical questions for improving medical control (MC) over the flight personnel. The authors analyse the main components of MC, i.e. basic control which is built on clinicophysiological methods, and dynamic control which is aimed for estimation of performance characteristics in the process of professional activities. The authors substantiate the structure of the perspective computerized automated system for MC consisting of three functional units: terrain complex of medical operational control, on-board equipment for aircrew health monitoring in flight, expert and diagnosis system for estimation and prognostication of professional health status.

[Ways to study the work capacity of pilots in flight]. / Puti izucheniia rabotosposobnosti letchika v polete.

On the basis of a careful study of the Soviet and foreign literature, informativeness of physiological, biochemical, psychometric, biomechanical methods used to measure pilot performance inflight is evaluated. It is suggested that such performance can be assessed via a systemic approach and with the aid of the following parameters: functional state as indicated by physiological and biochemical recordings; subjective evaluations of the state using the psychometric scale; quality of the flight task performed; precision of piloting; and structure of controlling movements. This complex of parameters can be used only after landing. Inflight evaluation of pilot performance still remains an unresolved problem. The greatest promise holds search for objective criteria of automatic evaluation of the quality of pilot performance, structure of controlling movements, and physiological parameters on an integral time scale.