Been a while since I flew any "bus", but isn't pitch alternate and roll direct the same regime as is blended in when the aircraft enters "FLARE" mode? In this regime, it's pretty much just a regular, old-fashioned airplane.
I remember one morning climbing out of YYZ over west Pennsylvania out of 380 on the way to 390 in an A330...literally smooth as glass from surface to about 383...not a cloud in the sky...and then all $%^& broke loose. CAT was so severe that we couldn't even read the FCU/Instruments. A/P kicked off and A/T was disengaged in record speed with consensus rapidly achieved that a rather more expeditious return than normal to 350 would be a sound course of action.
Moral of the story: keep your seatbelts fastened!
