Pedagogical Measurement of Physical Condition as a Component of Professional Readiness of Tactical Aviation Pilots
Abstract
In modern military aviation practice, the pilot’s physical readiness to carry out professional activities is of significant importance. It is caused by excessive physical (along with intellectual, psychological and psychophysiological) exertion affecting the body of a military pilot in the conditions of piloting modern 4th generation aircraft. The multidisciplinary theory of aviation psychology and pedagogy, as well as the achievements of military pedagogy, give reasons to understand physical readiness as a specific physical state of a person, refined in the body’s functional state, which ensures the successful performance of certain activities, characterized by increased requirements for health and physical fitness. Furthermore, there are good reasons to interpret a physical component of the professional readiness of future tactical aviation pilots as the level of the body’s functional state sufficient to carry out the professional activities of a military pilot under conditions of increased physical exertion and G-stress. The problem of its objective measurement during professional training of the military pilot for further application in the optimization of the educational process has an urgent applied value. However, the normative practice of such assessment existing in Ukraine cannot be considered efficient. This article highlights the author's approach to solving the posed problem. Here we present the methodical basis developed by us, which consists of a complex physical test and a relative criterion apparatus, which takes into account the specifics of the modern physical stress on a military pilot in the process of piloting a combat aircraft and the peculiarities of the effects of combat flight factors. This measurement complex, based on modern test technologies, has not yet been applied in the Ukrainian practice of professional training of future tactical aviation pilots. As an indicator of its efficiency, the results of an empirical experiment conducted by us at the premises of the Ivan Kozhedub Kharkiv National University of the Air Force are given and analysed. The obtained data are more informative, differentiated, and allow tracking the dynamics of changes in the physical condition of the cadets before and after all stages and phases of ground and flight training. Such information is essential for both the optimization and correlation of the educational process, and for more accurate professional selection of the cadets by types of aviation in the subsequent years of training.
