I like the idea of what'd happen if there were some runaway misaligned incentives and it ends up that long haul pilots are forced to vividly relive airline crashes for their entire 14 hour flight to Australia. Years later everyone can agree that it's beneficial ("It's always been done that way") but they can't remember why they started doing it.

Projected Headline: "According to investigators, pilots mistakenly believed their readouts and controls were still in simulation mode until seconds before the aircraft struck the mountain, killing everyone aboard."

I mean, yeah, practice for when the automation breaks is good, but during the flight? That's just creating more mode-switching error cases.

The whole cookpit lighting could be changed during simulation to remind which mode they are in. Something like Star Trek alert levels.

Why not remove guard rails and seatbelts why we are at it? And have the concoles explode randomly when lightining strikes?

Star Trek is a perfect example of how not to design ships, planes, systems and basically everything else.

Maybe the pilots can wear little simulation hats.