Ordered it, thanks!!
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Different Country different rules.
Here in the UK OUR supervising body is the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA).
Hence a whole plethora of exams, different exams and different medical requirements.
Light aircraft / microlights etc have a different licensing system.
I started with MSFS way back in the late 1980’s with no intention of learning to fly for real. That just happened in 1992 when I started and I can say that even the very basic MSFS that was available at that time did help considerably. I got my license in 45 hours but would have been less had a medical issue not delayed things.
Great advice; chances are he won’t get any sleep, regardless. I know I didn’t! 
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The simulator can have marginal benefits for the first few lessons of your PPC, mostly in basic aircraft control and cockpit orientation. If you’re doing it right, it can help with some of the navigation and communication portions of the instrument rating. I also firmly believe there are ways instructors can leverage the sim to get a student “ahead” of the game especially as the fidelity increases, but there are several things the sim can simply not replicate, instructor or not.
That said, a lot of DIY sim work can actually be somewhat detrimental. With DIY, there’s risk in that there will be many things a person might learn wrong or simply fail to make connections with other aspects of flying. It all comes at you a lot faster in the real air and the senses are much more overwhelmed, affecting perception in unexpected ways the sim won’t. So always take what you learn in the sim with a big grain of salt and be ready to listen to your instructor and unlearn/re-learn things.
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Congrats. Still learning for mine. Really hate the aerodynamic section in the EASA test. Just want to fly aircraft, not design them 
A restricted radiotelephone operator permit and station permit is not required to fly domestically (within the US). It is, however, required by the FCC and ICAO convention on international flights.
All the info you’d want to know about this can be found on the FCC’s aircraft stations website. This aspect is entirely managed and enforced by the FCC, not the FAA.