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Finally, it is time to go home.

Obviously if any urgent calls come in during the night, I will have to answer them.

But at the moment, fingers crossed, I will be getting a much needed long lie-in.

He had suffered 70% burns and was in an unstable condition.

It took a while to load him on to the plane - there were lots of monitors and drips to hook up inside the plane and it took about eight of us to manoeuvre him in to place.

He was accompanied by a consultant anaesthetist, a nurse and a doctor who administered drugs and treatment during the 30-minute flight.

It was extremely hot during the flight - a fan heater had been placed inside the plane while it was waiting in the hangar and the heating was kept on high throughout the journey to stop the patient losing heat through his burns.

The pilots called ahead to check that an ambulance would be waiting on the tarmac.

There were no planes waiting to land at Glasgow so we were able to land quickly.

Even if there had been a queue, we would not have to wait - the air ambulance has priority in the sky over everything except the Royal Flight.

An ambulance was waiting for us on the tarmac and the patient was soon on his way to a Glasgow hospital, again with a police escort.

We now have to wait for the medical team from Aberdeen to return after giving a comprehensive handover on the patient to their colleagues in Glasgow.

Until then, we have got our first real chance of the day to have a break and a coffee.

The reason why it is crewed by a paramedic is that on a number of occasions, patients' conditions have deteriorated during long flights and paramedic skills have been required.

It is also necessary to have an in-depth knowledge to assist the medical teams in their treatment of the many intensive therapy transfers we do - like the one we are doing this evening.

But we make the best of what we have.

Local health authorities run the ambulance services in England.

But in Scotland we are funded by central government and act as our own health authority.

Every ambulance authority has different criteria for what qualifications are required.

I suggest you contact your local ambulance service.

The patient has severe burns after allegedly setting himself on fire in the waiting room of a local doctor's surgery. Due to his condition, we will have to be very careful loading him on to the plane.

We've managed to get access to a hangar at the airport so we can transfer him in to the aircraft in a warm environment. We're assured that similar facilities will be available in Glasgow for unloading him.

Our estimated time of departure at the moment is 1730 but that may change.

We also have three Islanders based in Glasgow, Kirkwall and Lerwick, and the King Air (the aircraft I fly on) based in Aberdeen.

With reference to the PTS helicopter, I can't see that being a cost effective option. It would be an extremely expensive way of moving a non-emergency patient. We transfer non-emergency patients regularly because road or other transport would take far too long due to the locations and distances involved.

Adam has used the plane many times before and is quite at home with us. His mother used to be a nurse with the air ambulance service and really appreciates the work it does. To get to Aberdeen by boat, the journey would have taken them about 16 hours.

Throughout the day, I've been keeping in touch with the air desk in Aberdeen about a potential intensive care transfer happening later this afternoon. It looks like we'll be flying back down to Glasgow from Aberdeen at about 1700.

The pilots are only allowed to fly for a certain number of hours every day so there may be a change of shift before this transfer. However, I'm on duty 24 hours a day for this whole week. Since I came on shift on Monday, I've already looked after seven patients and have travelled more than 3,000 miles.

The wind was blowing straight across Tingwall airstrip near the local hospital so we couldn't land there. This meant the ambulance coming to pick up our patient had to travel an extra 25 miles to meet us.

It's still pretty windy here and pretty cold.

We transferred our patient off the plane and on to the ambulance as quickly as we could to keep her out of the cold.

Now we have to fly to Glasgow to take Adam Keppie, a 13-year-old boy with brittle bones, to see a specialist at Yorkhill Hospital in Glasgow.

Should have time for some lunch and catch up on some paperwork during the next hour-long flight.

It looks like today could be another long day. We've had a phone call saying there's a critically ill patient in Aberdeen who we may have to take to Glasgow later this afternoon,

This morning we have to fly up to Shetland to take an elderly lady home after a stay in hospital here in Aberdeen. After that we have to fly a young boy Adam Keppie (who featured in the profile) to Glasgow.

I had a really long day yesterday. We got stuck in Orkney yesterday evening after the weather closed in. The high winds did briefly drop about midnight and we were able to fly home then.