Isn't a young boy w/o piloting experience jumping in a MS a returning occurance in Gundam series?

What I recall, Frit mentioned that the MS testing procedure was too slow, because he knew it would work.
He built the suit himself, so I think it's only natural that you know how to pilot it. And since it's a gundam series, he's also a piloting genious..
I think he was allowed to sortie because there were no other capable pilots or something.


That 'sub-commander guy' seemed to hyperventilate to me.