Drone repair in Diksmuide

The Yser plain is water. Ditches, creeks, pools in the meadows, and in winter half the fields under water. Nature photographers and birdwatchers fly here a lot, and they fly low over exactly that water.

The rest follows. From Diksmuide we get a striking amount of moisture damage, and rarely the kind you see coming. Usually not dramatic — a landing in soaked grass, mist condensing on cold electronics, an aircraft that ended up in a ditch. But moisture that stays becomes corrosion, and corrosion on a circuit board means a dead aircraft a few months later.

Ended up in water? Battery out, do not switch on, send it the same day. That is the whole trick. An ultrasonic bath shortly after saves almost everything; waiting three weeks saves almost nothing.