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Hot air ballooning: Joyce Beckwith flies over Maasai Mara in Kenya
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Captain Joyce Beckwith may be a hotelier by training, but once she got introduced to ballooning she never looked back. Captain Smiles , as she s known, obtained her commercial pilot license in 2018 paving the way for other women in what is a predominantly male industry.
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Kenya’s first female hot air balloon pilot
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Derrick Oluoch | December 17th 2020 at 01:20:00 GMT +0300
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Captain Joyce Beckwith, an hotelier by training, became the first Kenyan woman hot air balloon pilot in 2018 when she attained her commercial pilot license (CPL).
While her dream was to join the media industry as a TV personality, she doesn’t regret pursuing a course in hotel and tourism management as that is how she landed in Maasai Mara Game Reserve in 2007 as an intern.
Working in Maasai Mara, Joyce says she got fascinated by the hot air balloons that were always flying tourists at the game reserve.