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Profile: Jerry Hoogerwerf
What Jerry does, mostly, these days, is "environmental flying." He does forest surveys (the day after I interviewed him in 2005, he was going out to look for bark damage on piñon pines), fish surveys, wildlife surveys, and migrating bird surveys, usually in New Mexico, but sometimes in a neighboring state or in Mexico. On one of these flights, which can last up to six-and-a-half hours, he is likely to have one or more scientists or officials of the Bureau of Reclamation or the Fish and Wildlife Service on board, armed mostly with their own eyes and cameras (and clip boards). Sometimes they use radios to monitor tagged animals. |
n 1987, Jerry Hoogerwerf bought a Cessna 205, an airplane that had rolled out of the Cessna factory in Wichita, Kansas nearly twenty-five years earlier. As this plane approaches its fiftieth birthday (and as Jerry edges toward his seventieth), there is no sign that they plan to part company any time soon. "It's just a perfect airplane for what I do," Jerry told me. "It's got a high wing, so my passengers and I can see down. It will fly slowly, which I sometimes need to do. It will carry a good load. And it doesn't cost too much to run."
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