Crediton drone survey, Devon

The road out to Crediton runs by the A377, following the old railway line up the Yeo valley, covering the roughly 7.0 miles from our Exeter base. It's barely out of Exeter before we arrive, so a booking here sits alongside the rest of the work we do across Mid Devon.

A Crediton survey in EX17 is quoted the same way as one five minutes from Exeter: fixed price agreed before the visit, Mid Devon mileage already built into that number.

Wind, rain and poor light stop a Crediton flight the same as they would in Exeter itself. A EX17 reschedule is planned around the forecast, never around a long drive.

Nothing about Devon distance changes the paperwork for Crediton. The same CAA registration, insurance with Coverdrone and A2 Certificate of Competency apply in EX17 as at our own front door.

Crediton itself is best described this way: A long Georgian and Victorian high street, cob and thatch cottages in the surrounding lanes, farmhouses and barn conversions across the rural hinterland, and modern estates on the valley sides. Whatever the EX17 building turns out to be, it's the flight plan for Crediton that changes, not the aircraft.

A market town in the Creedy valley with steep red sandstone hills on either side, surrounded by some of the most productive farmland in Devon. That's worth knowing before a Crediton visit, because it decides where the launch point sits in EX17, not whether the job can be done at all. Between Holy Cross Church and Crediton High Street, Crediton has enough going on in EX17 that most jobs read as properly local rather than a generic address on a form.

Missing pet searches come up around Crediton too, on open ground rather than a specific roof, and get treated as urgent within EX17 in a way a routine condition survey isn't.

Devon covers a lot of ground, and Mid Devon is the slice of it Crediton sits in, EX17 included. That grouping is mostly for our own planning.

A EX17 job in Crediton sits on the same Mid Devon run as Exeter, Tiverton and Okehampton, which is usually how one trip out from Exeter covers several bookings rather than one.

Crediton enquiries work the same way as any EX17 booking: postcode, job, and a few dates that would suit. We check Mid Devon availability and come back rather than guess at a timescale.

A Crediton report is written up the same way as any other EX17 job: within 48 hours, describing what the flight over Mid Devon actually found.

The same run usually takes in Barnstaple as well, and closer to Crediton itself, Creedy valley farmland and Downes House are the kind of landmarks that make an address easy to place before we've even driven out.