Wow, that video is gold.
Okay, how's this for an idea. Again, I'm not really the person to figure out exactly how to build a user interface, but I'll have a crack. Normally, you would operate an A-10 according to a defined checklist. So as a training aid / operating aid, have an on screen checklist that can be exported to an iPad screen as well.
The difference is, the checklist is actionable just by clicking a button, either to cycle through the whole thing, or action it one item at a time. Which is to say, when you press the checklist button, or tap the line in you iPad, the model of the pilot on screen reaches out and performs the action on the checklist. You'd look through a menu for the thing that you want to do, open the checklist, then click through it. When you got to the end, it would suggest things that you might want to do next. Add in stuff like a button that explains what the step you just took actually does ("tell me more"), along with an optional reminder of how you can do the step yourself, and you've got yourself a great way to both learn DCS and to operate the aircraft if you're too lazy to do things properly.
Honestly, this isn't even that far from how I operate a 737. I've got this idiots checklist to startup, takeoff, cruise, etc. that fits on 3 A5 pages. A cheat sheet if you will. I keep it in the clip on the control yoke. Single pilot aircraft are operated according to memorized checklists (do-lists, really), and we train for single-pilot ops in our first two years of flying, so this is what I'm more familiar with. The last aircraft I flew had an 18 page checklist that you would say out loud as you did the items (get a word wrong and you're going job hunting). However in multi-crew operations you have a philosophy of flows (the doing part) followed by checks, where both pilots check that the correct actions have been taken, always done by reading off a paper checklist. My idiots guide then covers the flows, and a laminated page A4 kept in a slot on top of the glareshield contains the checklist. The only things you have to memorize (called memory items under the Boeing philosophy) are emergency actions (or "non-normals") for time critical events like cabin depressurization or engine fire/failure. Even then, the philosophy is that if you spilled your coffee you're rushing too much. Shutting down the wrong engine will kill you a lot quicker than letting it burn.
I've only got about 80 hours in 737s (300 hours total flying experience), so it's useful to have a prompt in case I forget what order to do things in. That's military aviation for ya! But no, we are very safe and competent, like actually, when I put it that way we sound like a bunch of retarded cowboys.