"If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys"....
The spanish decided that they have enough "experienced" pilots-and like Portugal, they hired some "fresh" military "Captains"....
Some of them has just been trained on the helicopters they were supposed to fly in the fire season-but all of the pilots were confident, that (with their HUGE experience from military aviation) they would be more than qualified to do the job...
I saw a few of these "soon to be Captains" get their type rating......with some of them, i didnīt want to fly in the same area.....
Sorry to say that-but i had to learn that, too:
Military flying experience has NOTHING to do with civil (commercial) aviation...
Weīll have to wait until the cause of the accident has been discovered-maybe it was not a pilotīs error...(but i doubt that).