Dave Kershaw, Heliworks Managing Director

Total flying time: in excess of 18,200 hours flying time in various aircraft.
Dave’s experience includes:

• Pilot all aspects of Commercial and Air Transport Work
• Aerial filming work using all camera systems
• Check & Training, Hughes 500, As350 Series, Bell Long Ranger , Bell212 attend Flight Safety for Bell 212
• Operated extensively in NZ, Papua New Guinea, Australia, Antarctic, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Solomon Islands
• Air Transport: scenic flying and general charter
• Medical evacuations – including rescue work.
• Supply drops
• Avalanche control
• Fire fighting
• Long Line work
• High altitude operations ( 14,500 )
• Lifting, Concrete, Buildings, unload boats.
• 1 Season in Antarctica on Bell 212.
• Support Oil & Mineral Companies, Papua New Guinea, Bangladesh
  UN (World Food Program), East Timor, Banda Aceh Indonesia, Sudan
• Australian Defence Department, Bougainville, Solomon Islands
• Chief Pilot Hevi Lift (PNG) Ltd staff of 60 pilots Plus Check & Training responsibility

Alfie Speight
Total flying time: in excess of 11,650 hours
Alfie is New Zealand's principal filming pilot for many feature films and T.V. commercials produced in New Zealand.

Alfie was the principal filming pilot for recent features such as the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Peter Pan, The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe and King Kong.
Other flying experience includes:

• Air Transport: scenic flying and general charter
• Medical evacuations – including rescue work.
• Supply drops
• Avalanche control
• Fire fighting
• Long Line work
• High altitude operations
• Lifting, Concrete, Buildings, unload boats.
• 4 Seasons in Antarctica on AS350 support to Italian and American scientific research.

Richard (Rico) Black
Flying hours: in excess of 4,450 hours in various aircraft.
Richard's experience includes:

• Air Transport: scenic flying and general charter
• Medical transport
• Fire fighting
• Long-line work:
• Lifting - concrete, buildings
• NVG Operations

Brendan Hiatt

Brendon is our Pilot Manager at Aoraki Mount Cook.

Total flying time: in excess of 5300 hours
Brendan’s experience includes:

• Commercial Work
• Heliskiing
• Filming
• Tourist Operations
• Search and rescue
• Agricultural
• NVG Operations

Jason Laing
Total flying time: in excess of 4,100 hours
Jason’s experience includes:

• Commercial Work
• Heliskiing
• Filming
• Tourist Operations
• Search and rescue
• Frost Protection
• General Charter

John Haora
Total flying time: in excess of 4,800 hours
John’s experience includes:

• Specialist filming work
• Scenic flights
• Construction/lifting
• Maritime work (servicing light houses along New Zealand coastline)

Sam Innes
Total flying time 2700 hours with 500 hours in the Queenstown & Fiordland area.
Sam's experience includes:

• Tourism
• Hunting
• Mustering
• Precision Longline in Indonesia

Mark Hayes
Total flying time 1200 hours based in the Queenstown & Fiordland area.
Mark's experience includes:

• Involved in the vension industry based in the Fiordland area
• Hunting & Fishing
• Mustering
• Tourism