Surely if your passenger is a student pilot, and at the nav stage, providing you are not flying something radically different to what he is used to, he should be able to fly it easily.
My Emeraude has a much lower looking view out the front than a Cessna. A mate of mine tended to fly too nose high until I pointed that out.
I've even let students land it, tailwheel, and as long as I tell them not to let go the back pressure till we are parked, they can manage. Provided they've been taught properly.
On the other hand with a nosewheel instructor one day, at the threshold we yawed a bit, one wheel touched down, and she squealed like a girl and let go the stick! So be aware.