Texas News Lax FAA Rules For Balloon Pilots Cited in Deadly Lockhart Crash KWBU | By Texas Standard Published October 18, 2017 at 2:49 PM CDT Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen • 5:37 Pudelek (Marcin Szala/Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0) The National Transportation Safety Board says the FAA should require commercial balloon pilots to pass medical exams and submit to drug tests.