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As the title states how in the world is one supposed to get into BFG?

Jumping in cold? With difficulty. If you have no players in your area you're going to have an uphill battle. Prepare to trawl eBay for a long while to get your desired fleet for a reasonable price.

There is a BFG computer game that is in beta, there's a thread for it over in the Video games section. That may be a quick way to get your giant flying space cathedral combat fix.

Or go for third party models:

http://vanguardminiatures.co.uk/product-category/gothic-starships/

http://www.battlegrouphelios.com/

http://wintersforge.weebly.com/

http://voidcrucible.weebly.com/catalogue.html

I started teaching some games at my FLGS after some people brought it up after seeing X-Wing, It is not hard to learn.
just read online about the different fleets and you can always play test with whatever really to see what you like most.
I would say just ask around your local stores to see if anyone knows how to play, and has ships. you only really need 2 cruisers to start learning how to play.
and fleets are all around if you look for them hard enough, and a lot of times (at-least where I am) if you will play them and give them the love they once needed as a game, people have no issues letting go of them.

Hmm... Might just do that