Development and Flight Research of Non- Intrusive Airborne System of Pilot Psychophysiological Status Monitoring

Systems continuously monitoring crew member psychophysiological status implemented in the advanced aircraft avionics suit will become effective measure of flight safety promotion, as more than 70% flight accidents are connected to «human factor». Standard recording equipment on modern aircraft records up to several hundred different indexes for monitoring flight parameters and on-board equipment technical state, but the status of the key element in accidents prevention – pilot is still beyond the scope of standard recording. It is connected to high processing complexity of implementing polygraphic methods of pilot psychophysiological status continuous monitoring on board the aircraft, as generally they were developing as laboratory research methods. During experiment preparation and realization these methods assume special conditions provision and direct involvement of highly-qualified specialists, which does not allow transfer of the primary methodology without deep adaptation to production aircraft cockpit for mainstream use. The given report considers some aspects of development and flight tests in Flight Research Institute of non-intrusive airborne system of pilot psychophysiological status monitoring, that allows to conduct monitoring independently without the necessity of sensor installation on pilot’s body and outfit and without introduction of additional tasks for the pilot, as well as other non-specific, not connected to common working load impacts. 1 General Introduction