Dave is a managing director and the Chief Instructor of the Cornish Parachute Club.

He retired from the Royal Air Force in 2006
after 32 years service to run his own Drop
Zone in UK. Dave has made over 7,000 jumps; including over 2,500 High Altitude Low Opening (HALO) and tandem jumps. From 1978 – 2006,while working as a military parachuting instructor he gained a vast amount of knowledge in many different
environments all over the world. Dave holds
a number of BPA qualifications, including
the BPA Advanced Instructor Qualification,
and he is a voting member of the BPA
Safety and Training Committee.

He has been involved in a number of TV
programs which have required AFF and
Tandems skydives to be conducted. In 1991
he qualified as a tandem master.
Dave has also qualified as a United States
Military High Altitude Tandem Master and
qualified as a USA Military Tandem
Examiner. He also qualified as an instructor
of Military Freefall Oxygen systems (UK)
and the Military Tandem Oxygen system
PHAOS (USA).

Dave is in charge of the parachuting operations for Everest Skydive, and responsible for all DZ control and management.