History USUA petitioned FAA in 1988 for operation of fat single and two seat ultralights with a self-evaluation medical requirement. This was identical to the requirement for pilots of glider (including motor glider) and balloon. In mid-1990's FAA tried to gain a reduced medical requirement for Recreational Pilots. The measure failed after drawing numerous objections from many directions. In 1995 FAA took out the requirement for a balloon or glider pilot to actually sign the self-evaluation statement. At the last meeting of the relevant FAA ARAC group, the association for general aviation pilots made it clear that if FAA could not achieve a substantially reduced medical requirement, then ARAC's recommendation was not worth pursuing. The FAA chose the driver license solution. Yet the self-evaluation has served well, and ARAC did not recommend using driver licenses.