Iceman49;
Hope its not self-inflicted...one of our great men of genius, fancied himself a computer expert and thought that turning off the flight control computers momentarily would correct whatever problem they had.
The Airbus 320/330/340 QRHs have mandatory reset procedures for troubleshooting all computers on board which may affect the operation. These procedures have been in use for a very long time and will be trained for and should be well understood. One just doesn't launch on a troubleshooting expedition in the 320 or any computerized device with home-grown or internet-researched "solutions". If a crew doesn't go by the book, then that is a training and standards issue, not an airplane issue.
act700;
What if it takes more time (for the flt ctl comps to come back) than you have fuel?!
Well, aside from being a straw-man argument, when serious problems arise, like any professional airman would, you deal with it...obviously. That's what we do. That said, the most serious computer issue to occur thus far, (QANTAS A330), did not present this problem. Not saying it can't happen but your question is quite far into hypothetical vs possible/probable. Such a scenario is not even in any training syllabus I know of - you're simply expected to deal with it.
The A320 is quite flyable on reduced ELAC/SEC/FAC authority, as described. Just as some people still think that "stall" means the engines quit on an airplane, some believe that the 320 stops flying when the computers "quit" - its a much more sophisticated design than that and if we think about it, would have to be to have survived this long without a computer-related accident.
Cheers,
PJ2