(Time to completion: up to 18 months for lessons, 10 years for sourcing the plane)

Items/Skills needed:
Plane
Ability to fly a plane
Motorcycle
Motorcycle licence
Car

Items/Skills:
BOB (packed)

Primary Bug Out Point: Manchester
Secondary Bug Out Point 1: Oldenburg
Secondary Bug Out Point 2: Dusseldorf
Tertiary Bug Out Point: Birmingham

Primary Bug Out Location: Caribbean (4,500 miles)
Secondary Bug Out Location: Iceland (1,200 miles)
Tertiary Bug Out Location: Scotland (500 miles)

Flying lessons are a large part of this stage, since any other likely exit vectors are deemed too dangerous:

Channel Tunnel, too confined, leads to Mainland Europe which is most likely to be infected.
Commercial Boats, for the same reasons.
Commercial Airliners. Airports will be crowded, possibly infected. Other passengers on the plane could be infected. Few destinations, if any would be accepting flights. Could also be infected.

Ability to control the destination, landing site and passengers is considered to be crucial to survival. 40 hours of flying lessons will grant the skills needed. If I am unable to afford a plane, I would at least know the locations and how to fuel and fly one. If buying, would be better to have one with range to make BOL in one go, since refueling would be a risk. However, 4,500 mile range planes are extremely expensive.

Airports

Primary Departure Point: MAN Large-size International
Secondary Departure Point: WFD Mid-size National

In addition to travelling the BOL, I will be attempting to scoop up friends and family. However, if this proves impossible they will be told to head to the BOL independently. Whilst this might seem cold, it is merely the practical, logical thing to do. Bulk e-mail, SMS and phone calls will be used to transmit the location of the BOL, and also the radio frequencies of the BOL and any comms equipment in the plane.

Rendezvous Points:

MAN (5 miles from PBOP)
WFD (9 miles from PBOP)
Oldenburg airfield (2 miles from SBOP1)
BRE (25 miles from SBOP1)
BHX (6 miles from TBOP)
CVT (19 miles from TBOP)
NQY (Most westerly airport in UK, best place to refuel before departing)

Specifying the plane will prove difficult, since there are three possible multi-hop routes from the UK to the Caribbean:

North, around Iceland, Greenland, Canada and the USA. (Most restrictive numbers: 700 mile range, 3,500 ft runway)
South, across France, Spain, Africa, and South America. (1,820 mile range, 7,400 ft runway)
Direct, across the Azores and Caribbean. (2,500 mile range, 5,000 ft runway)

Azores and Madeira are good refueling stops for shorter range planes. Islands with larger airports.

If I choose the north route, there is a high chance of unsuitable weather for flying. This could restrict the Bug Out window to a few months of the year. On the other hand, if I choose South, the crossing from Sierra Leone to Brazil is 1,820 miles. If I need a plane that can do 2,000+ miles, then I may as well get one that is capable of 2,500 miles and can do the journey in three hops:

UK > Azores > Sint Maarten > Aruba/Bonaire/Curacao

Runway lengths at these airports are 5,000 feet or longer.

The cheapest plane found at the moment capable of a 2,500 mile journey is the Learjet 60. "Priced to sell" at $4million. Whilst this is a cursory search, it shows that buying a plane is well outside the budget. Being able to fly one, though, is still a good investment, since WTSHTF, it will be a lot easier to "liberate" one. Precise rental on one of these planes in unknown, though it is around $9,500 per hour. So roughly $95,000 to flee for our lives, then. Bargain.

Learjet 60 can take 8-10 passengers, and max weight of passengers and cargo is about 9,000lbs.

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