BBC ALBA show on Scottish Airstrips
 

BBC Alba has an 8 part series starting tonight at 8:30pm on Sky Channel 142 about airstrips around Scotland, may be worth a watch. The shows title is in Gaelic so I haven't a clue what it's called in Engurlish but for you multi linguists or sheep shaggers it's Puirt-adhair.

pb84,

Uncle Google tells me that is “ports air” :)

Thanks, piperboy84. Really enjoyed that, especially the bits about gliding at Easterton.

And the bird dog taking off from my strip in the opening credits!! I'm sure my left arm was in the shot, the girlfriend said it was probably my belly! :)

Many thanks from me too - I also thought the gliding footage at Easterton was very well done :)

Also I had to agree with the ground handler at Wick - as I always have a bottle of Old Pulteney 12yo in stock at home sometimes :)

Good to see Easterton on the telly :ok:

To the supporters of Easterton: y'all owe me one for adding the field both at GB-0441 @ OurAirports
and at https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=13/57.5905/-3.3068

Some old footage in there I think as it's a good while since Loganair went to Wick with BA livery but it was lovely to see my childhood home and the cheery Andy Bruce :)

Tempted to try gliding now...

Now, there's a name I recall from the dim and distant past!

Looks like this is the second series:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/search?q=Puirt-adhair

Forgot to say last night - there are at least 4 episodes of series 1 on youtube.
I only had a quick glance last night and there may be more with a slightly different search term.

Here is the channel and Facebook page of the producer

"Please “LIKE” our Midas Media Facebook page to see our updates, and to let us know what you think:
www.facebook.com/midasmedia.tv

Here is where you can find BBC ALBA:
Freesat 109 (UK)Freeview 7 (Scotland only)Sky 142 (UK)Virgin Media 161 (UK)BBC iPlayer (each Ep is here for 30 days after first shown)
Please spread the word, and we’d welcome feedback too."

Episode 2 was on tonight, felt sorry for the cadet that didn't get signed off for his solo.

I think it's tomorrow nights episode that includes a short piece on certain individuals who not only work hard maintaining grass airstrips but are also devastatingly handsome, highly intelligent and extremely well endowed.

:) Now if only I had such a telly box setup, plus the required subscription...

I'll tell Tom.:cool:

Ah I wondered what BBC ALBA was.
So the licence fee we all have to pay gets you an extra BBC channel in Scotland; something else the Scots are sponging from the English in addition to free prescriptions.http://www.pprune.org/images/icons/46.gif(Why can't I get the 'Red Devil' to appear here?)

Yeap, and long may the sponging continue👍 Don't know what those "leave" voters were thinking!

Well, Mr Chevvron, sic, you did steal all our oil, all of our land, and we are now slowly but surely, taking it back. Just wait until we FRACK the line between Castle Douglas and Newcastle. An England cast adrift, drifting aimlessly Northwards, cause your European friends wont attach you to their mainland.;);)

Now now Maxred, let's not throw the baby out with the bath water here, these free prescriptions and the kid getting a college education for nothing is freeing up cash for my 430 WAAS upgrade. Now get back to work there Chevvron, those fancy new 8.33 comms I've got my eye on aint gonna buy themselves.

Didn't some English politician once suggest that they could dump their nuclear waste ****e in Scotland?

You and the strip got a bit more screen time tonight.
Unfortunately you weren't dubbed into Gaelic so the Angus/Yank twang shone through... and no subtitles :)

Think so, but they plumped for a postcode in Central London, inside the Houses of Parliament if I remember correctly. Apparently has warped a lot of peoples minds.......Balls in your Court Mr Bernier:rolleyes:

Dunno what "sponging" is, but if you mean "spongeing" check out the Barnett Formula for funding - if the Scottish government is generous to the lieges in one area then it has to short change them in another. It is a zero sum.

Within Scotland it is a net zero - the issue of spongeing comes from Barnet - 2012/13 - expenditure per head in England £8,529, expenditure per head in Scotland £10,152.

And hence the 'free' services in a 'country' which if independent would have finances worst than Greece!

This post seems to have drifted off course!

Piperboy, good stuff!

However, I wouldn't admit on camera that I was addicted to grass:=

Without being childish, Chevvron started it:uhoh:

Highland Airports...
 

This time we got Shetland, East Lothian, Dundee and some wee croft in Forfar of all places... Looks like everyone wants to be a Highlander these days!

The BBC should be done for false advertising! :p

Without being childish, I did try to attach a Red Devil to show I was joking.

The problem with trying to keep the show authentic as to the most popular sporting activities in the Highlands is how many viewers are going to watch a show based solely on stern Sunday morning lectures from a grim looking Wee Free minster on the evils of alcohol and liberal fornication while the congregants sit listening intently while also planning their next piss-up and wife swapping party.

Appying that to my memories of the aging Highland community where I grew up = yuck......

Fine patch of grass you’ve got there, by the way :)

It was noted. To a certain extent, so are we.....apart from the bit about........

Scotland has:
BBC Radio Scotland
Radio Radio Nan Gaidheal.

TV:
BBC 1 Scotland 1
BBC 2 Scotland
BBC Alba

England has:
TV:
BBC North East and Cumbria
BBC North West
BBC Yorkshire
BBC Yorkshire and Lincolnshire
BBC East Midlands
BBC West Midlands
BBC East
BBC West
BBC South
BBC London
BBC South East
BBC South West

Radio:
BBC Essex
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire
BBC Radio Norfolk
BBC Radio Northampton
BBC Radio Suffolk
BBC Three Counties Radio
BBC Radio Derby
BBC Radio Leicester
BBC Radio Nottingham
BBC Radio London
BBC Newcastle
BBC Radio Cumbria
BBC Tees
BBC Radio Lancashire
BBC Radio Manchester
BBC Radio Merseyside
BBC Radio Berkshire
BBC Radio Oxford
BBC Radio Solent
BBC Radio Kent
BBC Surrey
BBC Sussex
BBC Radio Guernsey
BBC Radio Cornwall
BBC Radio Devon
BBC Radio Jersey
BBC Radio Bristol
BBC Radio Gloucestershire
BBC Somerset
BBC Wiltshire
BBC WM
BBC Coventry & Warwickshire
BBC Hereford and Worcester
BBC Radio Shropshire
BBC Radio Stoke
BBC Radio Leeds
BBC Radio Sheffield
BBC Radio York
BBC Radio Humberside
BBC Radio Lincolnshire

Yes, it's a disgrace the licence fee spending is so badly skewed towards Scotland.

Hey, the Beeb could have come to Strathaven if they were heading out of the highlands.

After all, my father never learned to speak English until he went to school and the sale of the wee bit of Skye croft land went to help pay for this airfield!

pb84,

I can vouch for the first two qualities. The third one, I'm glad to say, I do not have any information on which I could base an opinion! :E

I flew over PP84’s strip yesterday on the way back from Perth to Aberdeen. I was at about 2500 feet and would have gone in lower for a closer look see but it there was an aircraft taxing down there so kept out of the way. Wouldnt mind a fly in one day. Bacon butties??

Help yourself, I'm overseas right now so don't answer my phone, cafe gate is at the 27 threshold down the slope then follow the path south for about 200 yards.

Here is the link for the cafe:

http://www.murtontrust.org.uk/index.php/tea-room/

I suppose I better put the disclaimers in, I am not linked with the nature reserve in any way other than being a neighbor, all visits are at your own risk, if you prang your plane or get assaulted by a donkey you're on your own.

They keep/train fighting donkeys now in Scotland? No end to surprise.

Jan, the donkeys are only trained to keep the sheep satisfied when the Aberdonians are not in town.:cool: