Exactly, when you listen to the audio his father is also mic'd in, and all the real important instructions (to position and hold, etc) he is relaying. His son got to do the fun easy stuff like saying "cleared for takeoff" and "contact departure".
Kind of reminds me of when I taught flying, first flight with a student I would always make them do the takeoff. The student would be hesitant and I'd just tell them to "keep it straight down the runway and pull back at 55 knots airspeed". Takeoff is easy, landing is the hard part!
This incident is just the ATC equivalent of that, and yes I understand the son was not an approved trainee etc etc, but it really wasn't that bad.
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