Age
Min age CPL/IR 18 years
Min age ATPL 21 years
I would disagree that the ages need rethinking. He has obviously passed all the same hurdles in training to get there and in many ways, if he has been involved with aviation since childhood, may even have more experience than your average 26 year old fATPL holder.
100%. My instructor in the states was 21, and my instructor in Uk same age. Great guys who will only do better as time passes. Wish i had got into aviation younger.