Flight students (from left) Matt Tudhope, Chris Caywood, and Dan Lewis help Godlewski (in tiara) celebrate a flight-instruction milestone.

Airport congratulates flight instructor

April 2010—Teaching someone to fly is a gift, a skill, and not a particularly easy undertaking. On March 17, while working with student Dan Lewis, certified flight instructor Meg Godlewski logged her thousandth hour of dual flight instruction.

Godlewski earned her certification at Crest Airpark and spent several years instructing at Boeing Field before taking a job at Clover Park Technical College in Lakewood. She still has ties to Boeing Field, doing her instrument recurrency training at Aviation Training Center and bringing her students to aviation safety meetings and special events at the Museum of Flight.

Godlewski has also served the aviation community through her 10 years as a journalist/photographer for General Aviation News, Women For Aviation magazine, and the Experimental Aircraft Association. She is also an instructor for Green River Community College at Crest Airpark.

She and Lewis celebrated their flight in grand style, with Godlewski in white elbow length gloves and a tiara made by Julie Filucci from Cessna, complete with the Cessna logo.

"My students were as excited about it as I was," Godlewski said. "Matt Tudhope and Chris Caywood, the students I flew with for hour 999, made a special point of putting the airplane away so that I could go get ready. The talking mice from Cinderella have nothing on those two!"

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