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Puirt-adhair/Highland Airports

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Behind the scenes at the airports across the Highlands and islands.

Puirt-adhair (Highland Airports)

Puirt-adhair/Highland Airports: Series 1: Episode 8

Puirt-adhair

Episode 8

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BBC ALBA - Puirt-adhair/Highland Airports, Series 1, Episode 8

The fire team at Dundee Airport they train for a mud rescue in Invergowrie Bay.

Documentary series that goes behind the scenes at the airports across the Highlands and islands. In this episode, the fire team at Dundee Airport undertakes a training exercise.

Anns an t-sreath seo chì sinn dè a bhios a' tachairt 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 Dhùn Dè tha na sgiobaidhean smàlaidh a' dol tro dheuchainn tubaist a tha iad an dòchas nach tachair gu bràth - tubaist aig àm muir-tràigh ann am Bagh Inbhir Ghobhraigh aig ceann siar a' phuirt-adhair a tha a' dol na lèig dà uair gach latha.

'S e brògan sònraichte airson coiseachd air poll an aon rud a tha gan cumail air uachdar. Tha cruibha heileacoptar a mhaoir-chladaich à Inbhir Nis anns na beanntan faisg air Ullapul, agus iad air dithis bho sgioba teasairginn nam beann aig Feachd an Adhair a chuir sios air mullach beann airson eacarsaich le chèile. Agus, am plèana-uisge aig Loch Laomainn agus anns an t-Eilean Sgiathanach trang le luchd-turais agus luchd-obrach.

This series gives viewers a behind the scenes view of the airports across the Highlands and Islands, through the eyes of the people who work there.

In this programme, the fire team at Dundee Airport practices for an emergency where a plane has supposedly crashed at low tide in Invergowrie Bay at the west end of the runway, which turns into a sea of mud twice a day. They need specialist equipment including mud shoes to keep them from sinking, and it's heavy going for the crew.

The coastguard helicopter from Inverness is in the mountains near Ullapool doing a joint exercise with the RAF mountain rescue team where two people are stranded on a mountain. Viewers get a dramatic winchman's view of what happens. And we travel on the seaplane from Loch Lomond, which is busy taking tourists and workers on journeys to Skye and the inner isles.

Puirt-adhair/Highland Airports: Series 1

Documentary that goes behind the scenes at the airports across the Highlands and islands.

Documentary series that goes behind the scenes at the airports across the Highlands and islands.

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