Okehampton drone survey, Devon

From our base in Exeter it's roughly 20.0 miles out to Okehampton, well within the normal working radius. We'd normally get there via the A30, out onto the northern edge of Dartmoor, and that's the road the drone, the cases and the rest of the kit travel down whenever a job in the EX20 area comes in.

Okehampton carries no call-out premium for sitting inside West Devon rather than in Exeter itself. The EX20 run is already factored into the fixed price agreed before the visit.

Weather decides the flying day for Okehampton the same way it does across West Devon: wind, rain and poor light stop a flight, and a reschedule for EX20 costs nothing.

Flights around Okehampton are planned under the same Civil Aviation Authority rules as anywhere on the West Devon round, aircraft, Operator ID and Flyer ID checked before EX20 is even in the diary.

The property stock in Okehampton runs like this: A granite and slate town centre, Victorian terraces, a large stock of post-war housing, and scattered moorland farms and longhouses in the surrounding parishes. Different EX20 roofs need different flight lines, but a Okehampton survey works the same way whichever one is in front of us.

A town at the northern foot of Dartmoor where the East and West Okement meet, with the high moor and Yes Tor rising immediately to the south. That's worth knowing before a Okehampton visit, because it decides where the launch point sits in EX20, not whether the job can be done at all. Between Okehampton Castle and Dartmoor National Park, Okehampton has enough going on in EX20 that most jobs read as properly local rather than a generic address on a form.

Okehampton sees a fair mix of survey types rather than one dominant job: roof condition, thermal, leak trace and the occasional new-build check, all flown the same way in EX20.

Okehampton sits within West Devon, Devon, which is how we group the round internally as much as how the EX20 postcode reads on an envelope.

Okehampton is covered as part of the wider West Devon area, which includes Tavistock, Crediton and Holsworthy. That breadth in EX20 is really the point of working from one base rather than several.

Okehampton enquiries work the same way as any EX20 booking: postcode, job, and a few dates that would suit. We check West Devon availability and come back rather than guess at a timescale.

Nothing about West Devon changes what happens after the flight. A written report within 48 hours goes out for Okehampton the same way it does for a EX20 job right in Exeter.

The same run usually takes in Exeter as well, and closer to Okehampton itself, Yes Tor and High Willhays and Meldon Viaduct are the kind of landmarks that make an address easy to place before we've even driven out.