Professional important abilities of aviation doctor that necessary for medical support of flight safety

Professionally important qualities of aviation doctors that have a direct impact on flight safety have been investigated. It was established that in the practice of an aviation doctor out of 200 professionally used bathrooms, only 99 turned out to be professionally important and noted as desirable. Of these, 26 competencies are necessary. It was found that out of 99 desirable professionally important qualities, organizational qualities are one of the main (30,3%) and become the main and determining (53,8%) of the 26 necessary professionally important qualities. The latter included: a high level of responsibility for the work performed, a small impossibility, the ability not to succumb to someone else’s influence, especially on the part of reputable persons, discipline, demanding, the ability to defend his point of view before the command, integrity, readiness and ability to accurately perform the prescribed actions and instructions, the ability not to prevent himself from working even to immediate superiors. Also, among the 26 necessary professionally important qualities, the second most important for flight safety are the qualities characterizing cognitive processes (15,4%), and the qualities characterizing knowledge (11,5%) become the third. The absence of negative moral attitudes such as the admissibility of material remuneration for professional services in addition to wages and a tendency to dependent behavior (gambling, psychostimulants, alcohol intake, tobacco smoking, Internet addiction, sexual or food dependence) plays an important role in the practical work of the aviation doctor. At the same time, the presence of such personality features as risk propensity and acceptance in relation to people are undesirable in medical safety assurance of flights.