"My apologies, Guiones, I only flew the thing for a few thousand hours...must have missed it altogether! I never once saw alternate or direct law except in the books, probably that's why I'm writing here in good health. And as I flew many test flights after overhauls on conventional machines, I learnt that a bit of modesty and briefings on things that are "evident" never did any harm..."
Hopefully you saw it many times in the simulator in the "few thousand" hours that you flew it. It is amber and it says: MAN PITCH TRIM ONLY. Maybe you also remember that if you are in ALT LAW and bring the gear down you get DIRECT LAW !!!!
You will still be among us in good health even if you saw it in the actual aircraft, any competent pilot can handle ALT and DIRECT LAW without any problem under non flight test conditions. Not a big deal.
100% agreement on the briefings.
G