From motorcycle riding I know that I do develop automatic muscle procedures. These are a PITA when, on vacation in Thailand, you get to ride a bike where neutral is not beetween 1st and 2nd but below 1st.
That's an interesting example. I raced motorcycles for eight years. Road racing, not dirt. Race bikes use a reverse shifting pattern from road bikes. So called "GP shift" has you pressing down on the lever for an upshift, road bikes are exactly the opposite. As you might imagine, the penalty for an inadvertent downshift in a race could be a crash! When I first started I was very concerned about this, but it was never a problem. Indeed, all racers I know jump onto any bike with any kind of shifting and unconsciously change "modes" in their brains.
I've never had the opportunity to fly a clockwise turning main rotor system, but I'd hope that after a few hours of check-out I'd be able to shift "modes" just as easily as I did on motorcycles.
Interesting discussion!