All he needs is an invitation and an offer to cover his expenses.
Mr Martin, now based in Christchurch, unveiled his jet pack at the Oshkosh air show in the United States a year ago.
In the weeks that followed, he expressed the hope he could demonstrate his device in Dunedin but, when approached yesterday, said he had received no invitation.
It is understood informal discussions have been held about Mr Martin's jet pack making an appearance at the Otago Aero Club's Wings and Wheels event at the Taieri Airport - usually held in March - but no firm arrangement is in place.
The jet pack had its genesis in Dunedin in 1981 when Mr Martin and friends were walking home from the Captain Cook Tavern to their flat on the corner of Howe and Castle Sts.
They were discussing finding an easier means of travelling than walking, and the following day Mr Martin went to the University of Otago's science library and began investigating how to build a jet pack.
Mr Martin was educated at Wakari Primary School, Balmacewen Intermediate, Kaikorai Valley High School and the University of Otago.
He moved to Christchurch after graduating.
Mr Martin suggested that early next year would be an ideal time to bring the jet pack to Dunedin.
"I've been wanting to get it to my home town and show it off at some stage."
The trip to the United States had cost about $500,000 but, since then, systems had been refined to allow demonstrations to be undertaken much more cheaply.
He estimated the cost of bringing the device and engineering staff to Dunedin would be about $10,000.
Mr Martin has spent the past year making the jet pack easier to fly and is working on a "low, slow" system that would allow members of the public, with little training, to fly it 1m from the ground at speeds up to 10kmh.
He is preparing to set up jet pack flights for the public from his Christchurch base next year.
Part of the drive to get the public on board came from the cost of building up flight hours to prove its reliability.
The need for a team of engineers meant each flight-hour cost "several thousand dollars".
"And then we thought, why don't we get somebody else to pay for that - the general public."
Mr Martin said the company had been working with top aerospace firms and the device had "quadruple redundancy" built into it.
"So, it's getting very reliable and very safe."
He believed flights could be offered in Queenstown and Rotorua and jet pack flights could become a business to match the success and safety record of bungy jumping which was ". . . no longer a scary thing because over a couple of million people have done it and they haven't killed anybody yet".
"I think that would be a good thing for the jet pack as well.
"To get a couple of million people through the thing and not kill anybody in the process would be quite nice.
"We can [then] say to people, `it's not as scary as you think it is'. Perhaps."
