Teen Pilot From Compton Returns to SoCal After Record-Setting Flight

The headlines says record breaking referring to youngest pilot (or youngest african american?)..not sure which. The record is not youngest SOLO pilot. So all these comments about having a cfi onboard is either jealousy or inability to comprehend english.
The article says...This flight across the nation in preparation for what he hopes will be a record-setting around-the-world trip. By then he will 18 and presumably will be a fully qualified licensed pilot. He will then be absolutely entitled to try for a record breaking round the world SOLO flight if that is what he wishes to do. Why are so many people so negative about his ambitions?

Once and for all aviation records have to be approved and sanctioned by the NATIONAL AERONAUTIC ASSOCIATION https://naa.aero/records/records-faq whose rules follow very tightly those of the FAI FEDERATION AERONAUTIQUE INTERNATIONALE based in Laussanne, Switzerland http://www.fai.org/ The claims these types arfe making that they broke such record are just pure PR BS.

If he was 17 and went Solo it would mean something. This is like a 16 year being the 1st to borrow the money for a Million dollar House after his folks co sign the note at the bank.

Read "Flight of Passage" by Rinker Buck. Now there was a record setting flight!

"A flight instructor accompanied him"!!!
What was the record? Eight thousand miles of cross country dual with only one accident???

Wasn't there something done after Jessica Dubroff's misadventure making attempts to set fligh records without an actual pilot certificate illegal?

I remember this idea was put forth by AOPA after there were many (idiotic) calls to not allow teens to take the controls at all after that crash.

This is not news and it doesn't relate to aircraft spotting. Instead, this event is actually a poor attempt at publicity that was already attempted by a non-pilot Jessica Dubroff who tragically died on takeoff in Cheyenne, Wyoming while climbing into a microburst due to her CFI's and father's rush to get her to her next "appearance" on April 11, 1996. I find it appalling that this "crew" took off in the same conditions in almost the same place as young Jessica did 20 years ago. This flight instructor and student pilot should pay more attention to aviation safety and human factors by taking a lesson from the history book. The FAA needs to step in and possibly take certificate action against the so called CFI here. This event is exactly how not to promote general aviation.

Here's a news article of this teen's crash in Wyoming a couple weeks ago:
http://www.wyomingnews.com/news/teen-pilot-crashes-plane-walks-away-uninjured/article_8758daae-44ce-11e6-a714-c36d62f21597.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Dubroff

Wow, the jealousy in this thread is a bit ridicules.
How dare a young man have a dream and attempt to do something positive in his life? Oh no, he set a goal for himself a took a small step toward achieving it. When will the youth in our country just learn to fall in line and not do anything? We can't have people go about setting goals, planning difficult international itineraries, traveling and being excited about it. If he keeps this up he just might learn something. Where will we be as a society then? Won't someone think of the children???

Stupidity beyond belief

So called "Records" by those under the supervision of a CFI are meaningless. It's just a fluff piece for those who don't understand anything about what it means to be the PIC with the ultimate responsibility for the flight.

I generally dislike record setting "stunts" like this. I don't consider them a real flight if the "pilot" has to have a CFI on-board to make it legal. The added pressure of trying to set a record has to contribute to some questionable decision making (getthereitis), such the flight linbb mentioned below.

So now race and color are part of records along with age? Too much of a circus atmosphere to the whole thing along with politics. Anytime something other than just the flight governs the record its more than the flight.

Record setting??? Around the world flight in the USA??? I'm going to sire a daughter. At the age of one, I'll put her on one of those flights with a CFI to make some records!!!