Launceston drone survey, Cornwall

From our base in Exeter it's roughly 36.6 miles out to Launceston, towards the far side of our coverage. We'd normally get there via the A30, most of the way to the Cornish border, and that's the road the drone, the cases and the rest of the kit travel down whenever a job in the PL15 area comes in.

A Launceston job is priced the PL15 way we price every East Cornwall booking: fixed before the visit, kit and the 36.6-mile run from Exeter both included, nothing separate tacked on for the drive.

A PL15 booking near Launceston is never held up by a crew travelling in from outside Cornwall, which keeps a weather reschedule a same-morning phone call rather than a lost day.

For Launceston, being further along Cornwall changes nothing about the registrations carried: CAA operator status, checked in PL15 the same way as an Operator ID and Flyer ID would be anywhere else on the East Cornwall round.

Launceston itself is best described this way: A walled medieval core with Georgian frontages, slate-hung and rendered townhouses, Victorian terraces on the slopes, and modern estates and industrial units on the flatter ground by the A30. Whatever the PL15 building turns out to be, it's the flight plan for Launceston that changes, not the aircraft.

Locally, in Launceston: A hilltop former county town of Cornwall above the Kensey valley, with the castle motte at the summit and Bodmin Moor rising to the south-west. None of that stops a PL15 survey happening, it's simply factored into the flight plan alongside the address and the brief. Launceston Castle is the kind of local landmark that makes a PL15 address in Launceston easy to picture, not far from St Mary Magdalene Church.

Whatever the Launceston brief turns out to be, the same aircraft and the same fixed price agreed before the visit apply in PL15. It's the flight plan and camera settings that change, not the process.

Launceston sits within East Cornwall, Cornwall, which is how we group the round internally as much as how the PL15 postcode reads on an envelope.

Launceston is covered as part of the wider East Cornwall area, which includes Bude, Holsworthy and Tavistock. That breadth in PL15 is really the point of working from one base rather than several.

The form on this site asks for a PL15 postcode, a job, and the dates in mind for Launceston. That's all we need to check the diary and come back with a fixed price.

The report for a PL15 job doesn't vary by distance from Exeter: written within 48 hours, covering what was actually seen at the Launceston address on the day.

The same run usually takes in Liskeard as well, and closer to Launceston itself, Launceston Steam Railway and Kensey valley are the kind of landmarks that make an address easy to place before we've even driven out.