Primary definitions of dependability of intense profession members

Significance of the problem. The design of the activity of intense (extreme) profession members is due to the requirement to master new and previously unknown areas of industry and life. In the history of aviation, the matters of critical importance and calculation of required and sufficient properties of pilot and flight crew have been a subject of never-ending research for the purpose of regulation in the context of air transport operation. Up to the present moment, domain knowledge, theory and methods that would take into consideration the differences in the properties for standardization in flight operation management remain undefined. This problem of undefined domain knowledge and shortage of methods of calculation of the characteristics of civilian pilots and flight crew members are considered as extremely severe and still unsolved in the operation of civilian air transportation. Thus, the set of problems, the requirement for finding and developing new knowledge consists in the restriction of the available theories and methods of formalization, calculation of properties and management of human dependability. The relevance of this subject matter is reflected in fundamental and applied research conducted in Russia and abroad. This paper sets forth the primary definitions of dependability of intense profession members using the example of a commercial pilot. Definition of the problem of pilot dependability.Time scale is the universal foundation for the partition of the scope of the human operator (pilot) dependability concept. The primary property of human activity is the category of purpose. Purpose can be evaluated in structured subsumption of the concept of dependability. The technical substance of the category of purpose is structured with the definition of the nominal description of the objects: pilot (P), vehicle or aircraft (AC) and selected activity environment (E). The paper formalizes the definition of the human activity dependability problem. Axiomatics of pilot resource properties.The diverse nature of the human properties constitutes the fundamental problem of their description and standardization for the purpose of activity standards development. The properties have similarities, differences and independence. The paper sets forth axioms as the premises of the human resources theory under development. The premises are stated as axioms of equivalence, independence and completeness of properties, parameters and indicators of pilot resources. The practical significance of the axiomatics of the pilot resources properties consists in the fact that their formalized description allows obtaining algorithms for automated and expert technologies for flight operation management.Below are the formalizations of dependability definitions. Conclusion. The theoretical definitions of management efficiency and guaranteed management efficiency establish the concepts of discernibility of the space of successful activity outcomes. The axiomatics of pilot properties allow overcoming the fundamental difficulty of formalized description of the diverse nature of human properties and enables reliable consideration and calculation of the states for the purpose of flight operation management. The paper sets forth the definitions of pilot purpose, pilot dependability and dependability of three different kinds, i.e. individual, professional, operational, based on a fundamental temporal base of observation. 

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