Flight controls
I was talking this summer to an Osprey pilot, and asked him about the transition from the more vertical flight regime to the more horizontal flight regime.
As was stated above there's a cyclic and a thrust lever, but the thrust lever increases thrust when it's *pushed,* in all phases of flight.
This means when you're controlling a hover, and want to *increase* vertical thrust, you *push* the thing in the spot where the collective is supposed to be.
He said you get used to it awfully quick.
The translation of command from the controls to the flying surfaces is drastically different in the two regimes, of course, but he said the transition is nearly seamless.