The Impact of a Flight Instructor’s Transformational Leadership on Pilot Trainee’s Flight Learning Efficacy

This study was conducted to verify and discuss the impact of flight instructors’ transformational leadership, as perceived by pilot trainees, on pilot trainees’ flight learning efficacy. Survey data was collected and analyzed from 200 pilot trainees at 9 domestic universities. As a result of the analysis, the charisma factor, which is a component of the flight instructor's transformational leadership, had the greatest positive effect on the pilot trainees' overall flight learning efficacy and the only positive effect on their confidence. Among the transformational leadership components, inspirational motivation had the greatest positive effect on self-regulation efficacy. Among the transformational leadership components, intellectual stimulation, individual consideration, and inspirational motivation had a positive influence on preference for task difficulty, which is a subfactor of flight learning efficacy, with intellectual stimulation having the greatest impact. These results confirmed that flight instructor's transformational leadership component showed partial differences, it had a positive (+) effect on pilot trainees' flight learning efficacy.