Growing up Winnie always had love for thrill and adventure .Born and raised in a small city(Mzuzu)in Malawi .While in high school at the age of 15 she met a friend who told her about flying and from that point she knew that’s all she wanted to do.She became obsessed with female pilots and flying .Being a Malawian girl the idea of girls flying wasn’t so common in the country .”I remember when I told my grandmother I wanted to become a pilot she was so surprised because only men could become pilots in her time” Winnie says .She started flying in 2017 a year after she graduated from high school, her mother used the gap year to raise up funds to begin her training.Learning how to fly was not easy for her but the love and passion for aviation grew stronger with each flight and at this point giving up was inevitable.Family has been her biggest support system till date.
Still on the journey of becoming a commercial pilot ,currently completing her last phase of training at 43 air school in South Africa ,Winnie says it has been the most fulfilling experience in her entire life.she hopes to work for malawian airlines and other international airlines but also has a great interest in instructing and bush flying, basically any flying job fits for her. She dreams to one day fly the Boeing 787 dreamliner.