ABSTRACT
As recently as the late 1990s, studies of Canadian flight instructors' and inspectors' opinions of their own flight training experiences indicate fairly consistent levels of dissatisfaction with the quality of those learning experiences (Harris & Conrad, 1997; Henley, 1995). The recent Air Transport Association of Canada (2001) publication, Human Resources Study of Commercial Pilots in Canada, supports Harris and Conrad's (1997) call for the creation of a "more learner-centred culture at the basic level of instructor training, a culture that adheres to andragogical principles of learner worth, experiential value and genuine interaction" (p. 1212).
