This training would look quite different depending on which era of the station we are talking about. For No. 24 EFTS the pilots would fly smaller Cornell planes, and would have much more direct teaching from the flight instructors. During the time of #5 OTU the pilots training in Abbotsford were generally more experienced, so the flight instructors mainly just shadowed them, and made sure they became use to the much larger Liberator bombers.