Post-apocalyptic takeoff. How to fly from an abandoned airport?
I'm a private pilot myself, but have no experience with airliners beyond MFS. Now I need a competent consultation as a writer.
So, we are in the post-apocalyptic world and we need to fly from southern US to Australia. We have a big airport (class B or C) with any kind of civil planes we need for the task, fuel trucks with jet fuel and a pilot. However, the airport was abandoned several months ago, there is no electricity and no survivors except for our small group (3-4 men. so we cannot move too heavy things). All batteries in planes and vehicles are probably exhausted.
We need to start the truck, then we need to start the plane. How to do this? Can we find any generators in the airport which we can start w/o electricity and get power for other systems? What jet models have an APU which can be started w/o electricity?