True, havick, he may have not been that current. Don't know.
I was just suggesting that he would have trained at some point in night ops to and from areas with very basic lighting.
As you know, while it's not a doddle, departing from and approaching to a light in an open flat area on a black night isn't exactly rocket science as long as the aircraft's appropriately equipped (AI, DG, radalt and some reasonable search or landing lights) and you sort out some LSALTs for enroute and circuit area.
That's the actual doing of it, of course, not whether he was supposed to be or not under his ops manual and the regs - I haven't done night bush stuff in the civvy world so haven't looked into it closely.
Of course there could be disorientation, incapacitation, equipment failure and all the rest of it.
XXX, I'm not saying military experience made him any better than anyone else, just that he should have had a background that included the kind of night ops planned for the accident flight.