Jay Honeck wrote:

My son, age 13, is planning to take flight lessons this summer.

My only advice is to go for it. Ok, so he *can't* solo for a few years. If you
wait until he can, there's a good chance that he'll be more interested in abusing
your ears with his idea of how to play a guitar or mooning over some girl. Let
him do what he can, and, if he loses interest, he'll have more to come back to
later than a vague memory of how Papa took him flying as a kid.

George Patterson
Battle, n; A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would
not yield to the tongue.