Seriously? Ok... so this kid is on his ME comm. checkride and your going to tell him to get out now, after he's spent a mere 50 or so grand on flight training... I really have an issue with all of the people on here who b***h and moan about QOL and pay, you knew this BEFORE you ever started working towards your pilot certs, and furthermore you're really not that much better of in other industries most places you will make somewhere between 20 - 30 K your first year out of college, and thats sitting behind the same old desk every day, where we get to do what we love. Yeah, your right being a pilot is terrible.

Rant over.

He'll be fine. If it gets classified as an occurrence he has nothing to worry about, if it gets classified as an incident it can be explained away at an interview especially since he wasn't the PIC, and the check airman should have been there to stop this from ever happening.