Tallsandwich
Thanks for your reply. You have summed it up very well.
I am surprised by the resistance to the question, I wonder why they bother to post replies? They must have nothing better to do!
They don't realise that in corporate aviation, some of the very high net worth individuals/ heads of state do have genuine threats against them and their families. Many take their own safety very seriously and over time many develop a good knowledge of aviation.
Perhaps the principals are overly paranoid, (or perhaps they are more aware of DEW than the schoolboys on this thread) but they are paying the money, and I just cannot go back to the principal with a whole load of reasons/ excuses why he should not be asking the question.
I will still be seeking the answer to the question, and will provide an answer to the best of my knowledge. And hopefully slightly more technical than I have read here!
Thanks for your support, I will be waiting for a further response from airbus.
Rainboe,
If DEW does not exist today, it certainly has a chance to in the future. My response has to be supported with some facts or reasoning.
The more I think about it, the more I think a good question has been asked. To clarify, how does an A320/ ACJ compare with a non fly-by -wire aircraft in the event of DEW/NEMP. What is the immediate effect, are both aircraft flyable?
The question has nothing to do with anything on the ground. Perhaps a DEW will not affect anything on the ground, perhaps the NEMP will affect the aircraft far beyond the serious damage on the ground. Who knows, but this is simply not the question. I cannot make excuses and give reasons why the question must not be asked.
My understanding is that a non fly-by-wire aircraft will still be flyable. It may have no flight instruments, but on a nice sunny day, it can probably glide to a forced landing. Therefore survivability is a possibility.
So the question is, in the same scenario but in the ACJ, is survivability a possibility? And perhaps this means, will the rudder and stab work?