Vanita Kayiwa\u202fis a Ugandan\u202fairline transport pilot, who serves as a First Officer at\u202fUganda National Airlines Company, Uganda’s national carrier airline, on the\u202fCRJ 900\u202faircraft, effective April 2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kayiwa was born in Buziga, a neighborhood in\u202fMakindye Division, in\u202fKampala, Uganda’s capital and largest city. She obtained her\u202fCommercial pilot license\u202ffrom the\u202fEast African Civil Aviation Academy, in\u202fSoroti, in the\u202fEastern Region\u202fof Uganda. Kayiwa, a line pilot at Uganda Airlines, worked with Air Serv which upgraded her from pilot to captain. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
A graduate of the East African Civil Aviation Academy, Kayiwa was the first female Ugandan Captain in Air Serv\u2019s 32-year history. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Summary About Vanita Kayiwa<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Fleet:<\/strong> A330<\/p>\n\n\n\n Position:<\/strong> First Officer<\/p>\n\n\n\n Total Time : <\/strong>Over 4,000 hours<\/p>\n\n\n\n Total Jet Time:<\/strong> Over 400 hours<\/p>\n\n\n\n Total Jet Command <\/strong>: N\/A<\/p>\n\n\n\n Qualifications<\/strong> : ICAO Airline Transport Pilots License (Uganda ) , commercial pilots license (South Africa )<\/p>\n\n\n\n Commercial Aircraft Flown: Cessna Caravan 208, CRJ900.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n She piloted Cessna 208 Caravans. \u202fShe first flew as a\u202fFirst Officer, before she was promoted to\u202fCaptain\u202fon the Cessna 208 \u201cYou have to work twice as hard as your male counterparts,\u201d Kayiwa said in an interview, talking about her accomplishments in a traditionally male-dominated field. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe women can do it, even the sky is not the limit!\u201d \u201cFlying is very exciting but to succeed you need to love it, dream it, and live it,\u201d she advised young girls according to an interview at Air Serv website. In April 2019, she was hired by Uganda National Airlines Company, as one of a small number of female pilots at the airline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Vanita Kayiwa\u202fis a Ugandan\u202fairline transport pilot, who serves as a First Officer at\u202fUganda National Airlines Company, Uganda’s national carrier airline, on the\u202fCRJ 900\u202faircraft, effective April 2019. Kayiwa was born in Buziga, a neighborhood in\u202fMakindye Division, in\u202fKampala, Uganda’s capital and largest city. She obtained her\u202fCommercial pilot license\u202ffrom the\u202fEast African Civil Aviation Academy, in\u202fSoroti, in the\u202fEastern Region\u202fof […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":26776,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[469],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26775"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26777,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26775\/revisions\/26777"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}