Features of the relationships between physical qualities and psychomotor abilities with the indicators of military pilots’ actions in controlling an aircraft

Relevance. The fact of professional significance for effective aircraft control of the corresponding degree of development of motor and psychomotor abilities in pilots, as well as the specification of the arsenal of these qualities, established by experts, actualize the need to determine the level of their development and the features of the relationship with the piloting indicators of fighter aircraft flight personnel. The purpose of the study is to establish the features of the relationship between the indicators of motor and psychomotor abilities and the parameters of controlling a highly maneuverable aircraft in fighter aircraft pilots. Research methods: analysis of scientific and methodological literature, pedagogical testing, psychodiagnostic testing, electronic registration of aircraft piloting indicators, methods of mathematical statistics. Research results. The degree of development of motor and psychomotor abilities in flight personnel has statistically significant differences in connection with the qualification category of pilots. An increase in the level of the qualification category of pilots is accompanied by an improvement mainly in the indicators of professionally significant psychomotor abilities in relation to the dynamics of the development of physical qualities. It has been established that the degree of development of motor and psychomotor abilities of thirdclass pilots (without class) is statistically reliably associated with a different number of indicators of aircraft element control accuracy in connection with the flight stage: on takeoff 34.8%, in horizontal flight 62.1%, when performing a turn 22.7%, when approaching for landing 69.7%, during landing 47.0%. Conclusion. The results of the study of the level of development of flight personnel motor and psychomotor abilities and the structure of their correlation relationships with aircraft element control indicators substantiate the need to develop a methodology differentiated in connection with the qualification category of the methodology of special physical training for military pilots.