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DOI:
10.5958/2278-4853.2021.00678.9
FEATURES AND PECULARITIES OF AVIATION PSYCHOLOGY
Yeliseyev N.A*
*Head of Educational Department,
The Higher Military Aviation School the Republic of UZBEKISTAN
ABSTRACT
This article addresses the various physiological factors that can degrade the mental and physical
performance of pilots, and countermeasures to those factors. In a normal environment (i.e., at
sea level and without any unusual forces acting upon it), the human body does a good job of
acquiring and processing information. However, when placed in an environment for which it is
not adapted (e.g., an airplane at altitude, with g-forces exerting loads in unusual directions),
that functioning may be degraded. Functioning may also be affected by drugs such as caffeine or
marijuana, nutritional state, and fatigue arising from lack of sleep, among other factors. The
acquisition and processing of information may also be affected by visual illusions arising from
the characteristics of the environment and by somatic illusions arising from the organs of
balance. All of these are important considerations, but our discussion is about what is arguably
the most important aspect of flying from a physiological standpoint – as pilot goes up, the
pressure and oxygen go down.
KEYWORDS:
Hypoxia, Fatigue, Hypemic Hypoxia, Aviation Psychology, Pilot`S Condition,
Aviation Safety, Emotional Symptom, Physiological Standpoint, Physical Performance of Pilots,
Psychological Factor.
INTRODUCTION
Physiology is defined as “a branch of biology that deals with the functions and activities of life
or of living matter … and of the physical and chemical phenomena involved”
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. Aviation
physiology is the study of human systems’ integrated functions and the processes by which they
maintain the body functions – how the body and mind work in the flying environment.
Physiologically, the most important concern of a pilot is hypoxia. At the surface of the Earth, the
atmosphere contains about 78% nitrogen and 21% oxygen. These ratios remain fairly constant up
to about 100 km due to turbulent mixing. However, the pressure decreases steadily with an
increase in altitude. As the partial pressure of oxygen decreases, your body has increasing
difficulty in absorbing sufficient oxygen to maintain body functions. This is reflected in the
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