He is not old enough to have a pilot’s license. I doubt an instructor would allow him to fly to airports the instructor has not flown to previously with the student.
My 18 year old son is finishing his PL. But his flight academy is shut down. He has to wait - no flying at all.
Did you read the article? Guess not.
Many of us have heard of teenagers who soloed an airplane on their 16th birthday.
These teenagers probably started flying years before they were eligible for a student-pilot certificate.
Not to bore you with my younger son’s story, but he got his private pilot license on the day he turned 16, was hired by a regional airline when he was 21; and now flies A-330s out of Seattle to the Far East and Europe.
He got a modest inheritance from a great grandfather, and never borrowed a dime.
My granddaughter got her pilot's license when she 17... Flew lots, all over Florida, until she went off to college... As a goal, a plane is going to be her first "extravagant" purchase when she gets out of med school... We'll see...