She applied to join the air force but when she turned up with the other recruits she found that she had been assigned to the army.

She challenged this with Major General Joseph Narh Adinkra and she was told that the air force did not take women.

[3] The prospective candidates were reduced to 20 and then to 15 when they were based at the Ghana Military Academy at Teshie in Accra.

Her first flight was in an Aero L-29 Delfín Jet Trainer which she first flew with Air Commodore Philip Ayisa in September 1998.

[2] In 2015 she was credited with saving President John Mahama's life when she made an unscheduled landing.