Electromagnetic Pulse

I was thinking more about something I wrote recently in a fiction vein Solar Flare: Fiction but based upon my knowledge of a potential Electromagnetic Pulse from a Solar Flare hitting earth from the sun. This then can cause various levels of EMP or (Electromagnetic Pulse). The most common generator of Electromagnetic pulses is the Sun through natural hydrogen thermonuclear activity. Because the sun is literally like millions of hydrogen bombs going off continuously which is why it sends photons (and electromagnetic pulses) towards all planets and asteroids and moons including earth at random in all directions.

I was imagining today what a large enough EMP near any jet plane that I know of in existence today. To the best of my knowledge most jet planes cannot operate or even fly without electricity. But if an electromagnetic pulse large enough from either the Sun (once ever 500 years or so like the Carrington Event) or from a nuclear blast nearby could fry everything electrical on board literally all or most jet planes that was electrical on board and operational only a moment before.  Though jet planes are a natural Faraday Cage in the fuselage which protects passengers when the plane is struck by lightning, I don't think that would protect from an EMP from a solar Flare through the Magnetosphere of Earth. The same thing that causes Aurora Borealis effects in the extreme might fry everything electrical on a plane. I think passenger planes need to be tested of the potential effects even if research centers use models to test what might happen in larger Electromagnetic pulses than the ones we have been hit with since 1859 here on earth.

For example, say you were on automatic pilot in a passenger jet plane. If you were exposed to a large enough EMP(Electromagnetic pulse) everything electrical would be gone. So, the question is if everything electrical was gone on any or most jet planes what happens? The most logical way to put it is eventually it crashes.

So, if you know a Solar Event is large enough it might be a good idea to make all jet planes land immediately while there might still be time to land before it hit the magnetosphere of earth. Most of the time we would have 1 to 3 days and we would know whether it might damage some or all electrical systems on planes worldwide.

This would be less of a problem for small single engine planes that were not jets because as long as the pilot could land without an engine (in a controlled glide) and had enough height and distance to some place to land they might be okay. The reason they might be okay is they are controlled mechanically and not electrically or with electrical and hydraulic assists usually. So, unless being near the metal caused electrocution of the pilot(s) or stopped their hearts landing would be accomplished without an engine powering the plane. Since you need electricity for a spark and properly driven planes are light gasoline engines usually, since you would no longer have a spark or a battery or a generator or alternator functioning you would have to glide in totally mechanically at that point. But, jets in general need their electrical systems or at least a critical amount of them to be able to land and not to crash. So maybe during the next two years when a potential Carrington event could occur this might be something for Governments to think about, especially the FAA in the U.S.

So, then the problem would be "Which electrical systems on board, planes, cars, trucks, boats and anything else moving would go down permanently in a big enough Solar Flare which might create a crash of some or most or all vehicles on land, sea or air when that might happen?"

I don't have the answer right here to this potential problem. But if it occurs and we as humans on earth aren't prepared for it are we prepared for every jet plane exposed to this EMP to crash? Satellites would all be fried before this happened in whatever area of earth this occurred. And likely  most Electrical Grids in that area of earth would also be down at that point. But, if planes literally started falling out of the sky all over the place that wouldn't be good for anyone.

The real problem I'm outlining here is not an IF? question, it is a When? question. So, whether this occurs in the next 2 years or 11 to 13 years from now or 11 years after that or even 200 years after that it is going to happen. Understanding this is probably the most important thing. It is sort of like Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Sandy, they were not IF? questions in reality, they were both only When? questions in the end. And in the case of both Hurricanes we all know they won't be the last ones this large to hit those areas again at some point in the future. The same is true with this question of EMPs and Solar Flares it is not IF it is When.