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Um... lifting...
Anecdotal information from the Marine Corps some years ago tended to suggest that for pilots beyond ab initio doing transitions fixed-wing pilots were easier to untrain.
I am more than somewhat familiar with that flow chart and training model, having been involved in the early versions of it well over a decade ago. One of the bits of feed back we got from New River was a desire to rebalance the amount of rotary wing / multi engine from the first training track/syllabus that was put together. They wanted less rotary wing and more multi engine, on balance, than was originally in the training pipeline. What this has to do with "untraining" I'll not comment on, since that's one of those things about Tilt Rotor monkey skills that took some learning by the test pilots at Pax.