Dave - Managing Director / Chief Safety Officer / Packing Technician (9,500+ skydives),"Viper"

Dave started Skydive Lake Wanaka with his wife Jools in 1995. He has represented New Zealand at Skydive World Championships in Spain. He is 'Mr Safety' – a bit of a legend!

Jools - Managing Director / Sales and Marketing (300+ skydives),"Jester"

Started Skydive Lake Wanaka in 1995 with Dave. The 'energy tornado' and Mum to Max and Maye.

Uros - Senior Drop Zone Safety Officer (16,000+ skydives)

Impressed and inspired with achievement. Not impressed by Hollywood but LOVES happy endings and loves animals - (once he has achieved world peace and stopped world hunger he will get some work done on his body!) He is usually 6'5" tall, blonde and handsome but not today!

Andrea - Mission Control,"Maverick"

Unflappable, organized, multi-tasks in her sleep and handles more phone calls than the New York Stock Exchange! Can answer 3 phones at the same time as well as running the drop zone for 7 years!!! Smiles all day long!

She "feels the need, the need for speed!."

See Andrea in Stars in Your Eyes Wanaka on You Tube

Kirsten – Wingman/ Sales and Marketing, "Merlin"

Kirsten is a born and bred Wanaka local – a Southern Lass – she can drive tractors AND skydive vans, muster sheep and herd skydivers, ride horses, answer 4 phones and all with the warmest smile and wickedest sense of humor!

See Kirsten in Stars in Your Eyes Wanaka on You Tube

Madi - Transportation Manager and Front Line Sales, "Goose"

From London England.  Nearly became a fighter pilot before giving it all up to work at Skydive Lake Wanaka!  Loves snowboarding, chai lattes and randomly jumping out of a plane.

"Great balls of fire"

Danie - Front Line Sales, "Iceman"

London lass who loves snowboarding & a few cheeky wines with the girls! She is stoked to be working here where her bad sense of direction doesn't matter when the only way is straight down!

"You can be my wingman anytime."

Alex - Sales/driver/editor "Charlie"

Alex is our ski "dude". He can pull off "Blue Steel" whilst doing a 540 on ski's. His beard is actually makeup & he fully admits to spending time grooming it with a razor free blade every morning. An all round nice guy.

"Mav, you big stud! Take me to bed or loose me forever."

Danni - Hanger Master - Ground Technician "Chipper"

Danni is from the UK Midlands and keeps the peace between the Northern Monkeys and the Southern Fairies. Danni will pop on harnesses, take pictures, mow lawns, pretty much everything and ensure that everyone is feeling super cool before they head off for their amazing freefall adventure.

"Highway to the danger zone..."

Alex Pereira - Tandem Master/Cameraman (4000 + skydives)

Mhaya's father. Loves Freefly, Swooping, Jiu-Jitsu, Pink Floyd, Mac Computers, Parachute Rigging and and of corse Brazilian BBQ. When doing camera jumps no Tandem fly too fast for him. Always keen for a fun jump. Bit loud, but only because he always have his ear plugs on. Passionate for everything he does. His favorite expression: “Bring it on!

Eugen 'Eugenius' - Tandem Master / Camera Flyer / Tandem Handicam / Packing Technician / Inspector Gadget (15,000+ skydives)

Our Mr Fix it comes from Hungary and is the fastest vacuum cleaner driver in the South – legends are made from this man!

Geoff - Tandem Master / Camera Flyer / Tandem Handicam (6,000+ skydives)

Gorgeous, friendly, home grown Kiwi – Life does not get much better than being strapped to this man!

Ingemar - Tandem Master / Camera Flyer / Tandem Handicam (12,000+ skydives)

Ingemar is always right, only been wrong once and that was only because he thought he was wrong! Loves the outdoors and indoors, no weather is too bad. Doesn't like wet slippery roads.

Olgierd Myrczik aka "Ollie" - Tandem Master / Camera Flyer / Tandem Handicam (7,000 + skydives)

Ollie is from Poland & has been skydiving for 16yrs. Skydiving is his first passion, followed closely by music (specialising in classical & jazz). He's not a fan of big cities, likes things calm & natural.

Eric "The Viking" - Tandem Master/ Camera Flyer/Tandem Handi Cam (5500+ skydives)

Back home from his adventure over the mountain our friendly Tandem Master from Zimbabwe loves skydiving but hates peas. Is allergic to cold weather !

Mauricio "Big Mac" Rocha - Tandem Master / Camera Flyer / Tandem Handicam (5000+ skydives)

Our favorite Brazilian - Big Mac is the meatiest, cheesiest man in the sky. He will always super size you to 15,000ft. Would you like fries with that? You'll be loving him!

Yuko - Camera Flyer (2000+ skydives)

Yuko speaks Japanese, Swedish, English and Kiwi slang. She loves the NZ sky and is the cutest person you could ever be videoed and have your pics taken by in the sky! She is cute but you wanna be on her good side since she has a really shiny black belt!!!

Hamish - Pilot (4,000+ Flying hours) "Slider"

"I have the BEST office in the world – 9000+ trips to altitude and I have still not had enough of those views!"

Peter - Weekend Pilot (5,000+ Flying hours)

Makes great coffee! “I LOVE flying the jump plane for such a professional organisation”. Peter also flys his Tiger Moth bi-plane on scenic flights around Lake Wanaka.

Visit his website: www.classicflights.co.nz

J.B – Parachute Packer Extraordinaire 19,000+ pack jobs "Wolfman"

Gallant, lucky, NEVER has a bad day – spends a lot of time on his knees!

Andy aka "Vamps" - Parachute Packer

A crazy kiwi, one jump and addicted. Talks so much about skydiving, people come and jump here just to keep him quiet !
Favorite saying "Told you you would love it" Wants to go again.. and again... and again...

Maria - Video Editor

Baby of the team. Will readily spend all of her money on 1) hiking gear, 2) chocolate and 3) ice cream - there can never be too much ice cream. Loves snow, struggles in anything above 25 degrees; considers living in the Arctic perfectly reasonable. Will try anything once, though usually gets bruised up in the process of doing so.

Max Hall-Trainee Meteorologist (skydives 1)

Max (age 9) is currently studying the art of the "head out of the window" weather check technique and lets us know every day that it's a great day to go skydiving and bike riding. Max did his first tandem skydive with Dad Dave & described it as "the best thing I've ever done in my life!".

Maye Florence Hall - Entertainment Manager

Maye Florence (age 6 3/4) is responsible for adding a smile to the drop zone and being cute. She runs a busy schedule, keeps the boys on their toes and can often be found on her barbie phone. She is DESPERATE to go skydiving like her big brother !