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AerOhio Staff
Our staff members are highly trained professionals. They are carefully chosen from many
qualified applicants because of their commitment to safety and customer satisfaction.
Please feel free to ask questions of any of our staff. We contract only the most qualified
instructors. All of our staff have their current USPA licenses and instructional
ratings on file. You may ask to see their qualifications at any time.
 Tim Butcher
Tim is the owner and operator of AerOhio.
Sherry Butcher
Sherry is also the owner
and operator of AerOhio.
John Winkler, aka
"Wink"
John is the owner of Wink's Down to Earth Photography and is recognized as the region's
most experienced freefall videographer. He has over 82 00 jumps
since starting in the late
70's and nearly 6000 of them have been with a camera. John shot 8mm movies before video
became available and has been a pioneer in the use of video for skydiving photography. He
is a D license holder with a PRO rating and an FAA certificated Master Rigger. He also holds a
USPA Coaches rating and enjoys introducing students to Sit Flying!
Linda Winkler, aka "Garfield "
Linda is the Chief
Office
Manager
and Manifester at
AerOhio. She manages the office staff and is
responsible for keeping the DZ machine in motion.
Linda also assist with all the ordering and stock for
our gear store, as well as managing the flow of rigs
for our rigging staff. Okay...so she basically
runs the place! She
has been working with her husband John in the skydiving
and video business since the late 1980s and
we are thankful to have her with us.
Peter Andexlinger
Peter is an AFF and Tandem Instructor.
He is also a Skydive University Coach with a D License and over
2100 skydives.
Peter's likes to do formation skydives (relative work).
Scott Andrew
Scott is a Videographer and a Canopy
Swoop Competitor. He has been in the sport for over 6 years and has over
2100 jumps. His favorite skydiving discipline is swooping.
Jeff Antoon
Jeff is a USPA Coach, Tandem Instructor, AFF Instructor and Videographer. He
has been in the sport for more than 8 years and has over 1300 jumps. Jeff holds a
D-License and loves free flying and swooping.
Craig Coben 
Craig is a USPA Coach, AFF & Tandem
instructor, and PRO Rating holder. He has over 1500 jumps. He is also an
experienced aerobatic pilot with 1000 hours.
 Pierre John Jamnicky
Pierre is a USPA Coach and Tandem Instructor with over
650
jumps. He is the holder of a D-License.
Dave Lepka
Dave is a videographer with over
4000
jumps. He is the holder of a D-License. Dave is also an accomplished
free flyer
and canopy pilot.
Chris Naujoks, aka "Blink "
Chris is an AFF, Tandem and Static
Line Instructor. He is also a videographer with a D
license and over 4300
skydives
he has been in the sport for over 13 year.
Chris also holds a PRO rating.
Peggy Reed
Peggy is an
AFF and Static Line Instructor,
as well as a Skydive University
Coach.
Peggy also is a videographer.
She has over 2000
jumps
and holds a D-License. Peggy has been in the
sport of skydiving for over 10 years she loves relative work formation skydiving
and teaching AFF.
"Watching people learn is
awesome!"
Dave Roberts, aka "Smiley"
Smiley is a USPA AFF Instructor and Coach and has over
1000 jumps. He is the holder of a D-License.
Nate Varns
Nate is a videographer,
a
USPA AFF Instructor, Tandem Instructor, a USPA coach
He has over
2350 jumps, holds a D-license.
Nate was the videographer for the 4-way team Kaizen who took the Gold Medal
in the Intermediate category at the 2004 USPA Nationals.
Jim Yoho
Jim is a videographer and USPA Coach. Jim also holds a
D-License.
Jeremy Hofstetter
Jeremy is a USPA Coach and one of
our main
packers.
Jeremy has over 200
jumps.
Ryan Petrie, aka "BK"
Ryan is a AFF and Tandem instructor, Coach,
and videographer. He has over 800 jumps and enjoys free
flying.
Jeff Whitt, aka
"Fluffy"
Jeff is a Coach, AFF and Tandem instructor
&
videographer with over 500 jumps.
He
has
been skydiving for the past
3 years
and likes to do formation
skydiving
and free flying.
Kevin
Smith
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Kevin is a USPA AFF and Tandem
Instructor as well as a coach with over 1000 jumps.
He
enjoys relative work formation
skydiving and free flying.
Kelly
Olsen
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Kelly is a USPA Coach. She has over
350
jumps and over 3 years in the sport. Kelly enjoys
relative work formation
skydiving.
Bryan
Jorgenson
Bryan is one of our pilots. He is highly experienced
and is also a aircraft mechanic.
Joe Ozbolt
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Joe is part of the packing staff.
Conor Ryan
PICTURE COMING SOON!
Conor is a USPA Coach and
is part of our
packing staff.
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