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Puirt-adhair/Highland Airports

Series 1

Episode 4

Duration: 29 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC ALBALatest broadcast: on BBC ALBA

Anns an t- sreath-sa tha sinn a' faighinn a-mach dè a tha a' dol air adhart air cùl ghnothaichean aig puirt-adhair na Gàidhealtachd is nan Eilean tro shùilean an fheadhainn a tha ag obair annta. An t-seachdain-sa, aig Port-adhair Obar Dheathain tha sgioba a' phlèana eiridinn deiseal airson easlaintich a ghiùlain a dh'àite sam bi anns an dùthaich. An-diugh bidh Pàdraig Craigmile, an neach-eiridinn, a dol cho fada tuath ri Sealtainn agus cho fada an iar ri Steòrnabhagh.

Aig Port-adhair Sumburgh ann an Sealtainn, ged a tha Chris Sandström anns a chathair anns an tùr-stiùiridh, tha e fhathast ag ionnsachadh. 'S e Andy Bell a th'air ceann ghnothaichean agus a' cumail sùil air.

Agus, 's e Dòmhnall MacAoidh a tha ag obair san tùr-stiùiridh aig Port-adhair Beinn na Faoghla. Tha dùil aca ri plèana an airm, agus tha an stiùiriche smàlaidh Derek Caimbeul a dèanamh sgrùdadh air na raointean-laighe.

In this programme, the air ambulance crew at Aberdeen Airport is always ready to take patients to and from all parts of the country day and night. We follow paramedic Peter Craigmile as he travels as far north as Shetland and as far west as Stornoway - all in a day's work.

At Sumburgh Airport in Shetland, Chris Sandstom is training to be an air traffic controller and Andy Bell is keeping a watchful eye over him, as things get busy. Meanwhile, Donald MacKay is working in the control tower at Benbecula Airport. They expect a large military plane to come in at night, and fire watch manager Derek Campbell has to check all the runways before darkness falls. Show less

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