DGAC Responds to FEMPPA on Private Pilot Training (1998)
Official letter from the General Directorate of Civil Aeronautics to FEMPPA responding to comments on the 1998 regulatory proposal. The DGAC acknowledges the exchange of views with the Federation but maintains a disagreement regarding FEMPPA’s proposal to exempt private pilots from certain training requirements, stating that flight instructors must comply with academic conditions and authority-recognized instructional privileges.
November 11, 1998
MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS AND TRANSPORTATION
UNDERSECRETARIAT OF TRANSPORTATION
GENERAL DIRECTORATE OF CIVIL AERONAUTICS
101.1009 00005846
SUBJECT: Your letter dated September 14, 1998, addressed to
Dr. Aarón Dychter Poltolarek, Undersecretary of Transportation.
C. Jorge Cornish Garduño
President
Mexican Federation of Pilots and Aircraft Owners, A.C.
P.O. Box 2576
Monterrey, Nuevo León, C.P. 64000
I refer to your letter addressed to Dr. Aarón Dychter Poltolarek, Undersecretary of Transportation, dated September 14 of this year, in which you clarify points contained in the annex to official letter number 4-080 of July 20, 1998.
With regard to the matters raised that fall within the jurisdiction of this office under my responsibility, after reading your letter I am pleased that, through this exchange of information, criteria, and experience between that Federation and the corresponding areas of the SCT, the constructive collaboration and dialogue that characterize Mexican civil aviation are being fostered. I have observed only the following point on which there is no agreement:
Regarding the request of the Mexican Federation of Pilots and Aircraft Owners, A.C. (Example 2), that private pilots be exempted so that they may receive training and instruction from any flight instructor outside the provisions of the corresponding chapter, flight instructors holding a valid license must provide flight instruction under the necessary academic conditions required for aeronautical technical personnel. This applies both to institutions and to instructors, as the case may be. It is sufficient to note that, in the case of flight instructors, they must comply with the minimum requirements established in Annex 1, Article 2, paragraph 2.11, subparagraphs 2.11.1.1 and 2.11.14; that is, they must have demonstrated before the aeronautical authority the privileges they hold to provide the corresponding technical instruction.
I appreciate your comments and send you my cordial regards.
Sincerely,
Effective Suffrage. No Reelection.
The Director General of Civil Aeronautics
Ing. Juan Antonio Bargés Mestres
cc: Dr. Aarón Dychter Poltolarek, Undersecretary of Transportation.
(Translated by ChatGPT June 2026)