4.7 • 709 Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2018
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Mark and Euan take to the skies in Orkney on the world's shortest scheduled flight
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0:36.0 | Hello and thank you very much for downloading the Scotland Outdoors podcast. |
0:39.6 | I'm Mark Stephen Hughes, Hugh and Michael Rath. |
0:41.9 | And this week we're way up in the far north |
0:44.4 | on the rather wonderful tiny little island of Papa Westry. |
0:51.2 | Westry Ops, Logan, 709 will be with you in three or four minutes, one crew, six passengers on board, they're all for yourself, and watch your surface with, please. |
1:02.0 | 709, surface wind is 8.6 and direction 086, over. Copy that, thanks thanks I'll just land runway 09 |
1:14.6 | and see you in a few minutes Logan 709 |
1:18.6 | let's receive thank you Hello, good morning and a warm welcome to Out Addoors. I'm Mark Steven and he's you and Michael Wreath. And this week the programme's got a real island feel to it. |
1:46.1 | Yeah, a couple of weeks ago we took a trip to the island of Westry, northwest of mainland |
1:50.4 | Orkley. We had a great time there, but we just couldn't pass up on the opportunity to take a |
1:55.2 | wee trip to the neighbouring island of Papa Westry. |
2:09.6 | To be honest, Papa Westry is a hop and has given a jump away from Westry itself, but it's at the end of the UK's shortest scheduled flight. |
2:13.6 | And before we set off, we're a quick word with our pilot Colin the Callister. Good morning. Good morning. That was very impressive. I like the look of that. |
2:33.3 | Yeah. To be, we were childishly excited about this. Is this Good morning. Good morning. That was very impressive. I like the look of that. |
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