NBAA has announced that several officials with the FAA and
Department of Transportation (DOT) will participate in a
“Meet the Regulators” session during NBAA’s 58th
Annual Meeting & Convention taking place in Orlando, FL, from
November 9 to 11.
Nicholas Sabatini, FAA's associate administrator for aviation
safety, and Jim Ballough, the FAA's director of flight standards
services, will participate in the session on Wednesday, November 9,
2005, beginning at 3:30 p.m. in Room S320A of the Orlando Orange
County Convention Center. Dayton Lehman, DOT deputy assistant
general counsel for aviation enforcement and proceedings, also will
participate.
The session will cover a variety of topics including:
- Recent progress on Safety Management Systems
- The work of the newly formed Turbine Aircraft Operations
Subcommittee of the General Aviation Joint Steering Committee
- The FAA's recent notice affecting aircraft wet leasing
- The upcoming 2005-2006 cold-weather season
- Charter management agreements
The session gives Attendees the opportunity to learn about
recent regulatory changes and what other regulations may be on the
horizon directly from the policymakers responsible for their
development and oversight.
Nicholas A. Sabatini
Nicholas A. Sabatini
became associate administrator for aviation safety of the FAA,
effective October 15, 2001. Sabatini is responsible for the
certification, production approval and continued airworthiness of
aircraft, and the certification of pilots, mechanics and others in
safety-related positions. He is also responsible for certification
of all operational and maintenance enterprises in domestic civil
aviation; development of regulations; civil flight operations; and
the certification and safety oversight of some 7,300 U.S.
commercial airlines and air operators. Sabatini oversees a work
force of approximately 6,300 employees in the FAA's Washington
headquarters, nine regional offices and more than 125 field offices
throughout the world.
At the time of his appointment, Sabatini was director of the
FAA's Flight Standards Service. From 1990 until May 2001, he was
manager of the Flight Standards Division for the FAA's Eastern
Region. From 1979 to 1990, he served in a variety of aviation
operations and management positions in the agency's Eastern Region,
as a principal operations inspector, aviation safety inspector,
manager of the Flight Standards Division Operations Branch and
assistant manager of the Flight Standards Division. Sabatini also
served in the U.S. Army from 1956 to 1958.
Sabatini holds an airline transport pilot certificate and the
following ratings: Airplane multi-engine land,
rotorcraft-helicopter, DC-9, CE-500, BH206, EMB110, commercial
privileges, airplane single-engine land, as well as flight and
ground instructor certificates. He attended the John Jay College of
Criminal Justice, the Kellogg School, Northwestern University and
the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.
Jim Ballough
Jim Ballough joined the
FAA in August 1986 and was appointed as the director, flight
standards service in December 2001. His organization of 4,800
employees is responsible for promoting the safety of flight for
civil aircraft by setting regulations and standards for air
carriers, air agencies, general aviation, airmen and designees.
Flight Standards also is responsible for the certification,
inspection, surveillance, investigation and enforcement of the
Federal Aviation Regulations. In addition, the organization manages
the aircraft and airmen official registry system.
Before his appointment as director, Ballough served as the
acting manager, continuous maintenance division, at the FAA
Washington headquarters. Prior to coming to headquarters, Ballough
served in Flight Standards Eastern Region positions including the
regional division manager, assistant division manager and technical
branch manager.
Prior to his joining the FAA, Ballough held a variety of
airworthiness positions with a major air carrier. He also served in
the United States Army with an honorable discharge in 1973.
Ballough holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Embry-Riddle
Aeronautical University and has studied at Harvard University
Kennedy School of Government, Florida Atlantic University and the
Pittsburgh Institute of Aeronautics.
Dayton Lehman
As the DOT’s
deputy assistant general counsel for aviation enforcement and
proceedings, Dayton Lehman supervises a staff of nearly 40
attorneys, transportation industry analysts and support staff. The
Enforcement Office monitors compliance with and investigates
violations of DOT’s aviation economic requirements, including
those concerning consumer protection, civil rights and unauthorized
operations involving U.S. and foreign carriers, and provides the
legal review for the licensing of new airlines. In addition to the
Enforcement Office’s compliance work, its Aviation Consumer
Protection Division (ACPD) receives and processes all consumer
complaints by air travelers, which have numbered between 5,000 and
23,000 complaints per year.
With the Office of Aviation Enforcement and Proceedings, Lehman
served as a member of the Federal Aviation Administration’s
Fractional Ownership Aviation Rulemaking Committee, which made
recommendations that resulted in the FAA adopting its new Part 91
Subpart K rule governing fractional ownership operations which was
issued in 2003. Lehman has been the Department’s legal
representative in its discussions with the European Union
countries, Canada and Mexico regarding U.S. fractional ownership
and other managed aircraft operations involving those countries. He
served on the Steering Committee of the FAA’s Part 135/125
Aviation Rulemaking Committee that examined those regulations.
Lehman also has a lead role in developing the Department’s
economic regulatory policies regarding the managed aircraft and air
charter broker industries.
Lehman is a graduate of the National Law Center at George
Washington University in Washington, DC. Dayton began his career
with the Civil Aeronautics Board and has over 31 years experience
with the federal government, virtually all of it involving aviation
enforcement and licensing.