title: [Work capacity and fatigue of helicopter pilots].
abstract: In helicopter pilots the direct index of their work capacity increased while indirect indices decreased in the course of the flying shift. The peak of their professional performance occurred at the end of the flying shift coinciding with the expressed feeling of fatigue. Evaluation of professional work capacity using direct methods does not yield adequate information about the state of pilots, making them unsuitable to diagnostics fatigue and to measure permissible work load. Proper diagnostics of fatigue does not necessarily require examinations of the pilot's state inflight. Adequate information can be obtained on the ground during the flying shift.
mesh_terms: D000337:Aerospace Medicine; D004185:Disability Evaluation; D005221:Fatigue / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D011930:Reaction Time; D014938:Work Capacity Evaluation
vernacular_title: Nekotorye osobennosti issledovaniia rabotosposobnosti i utomleniia pilotov vertoletnoĭ aviatssi.