She obtained her Commercial pilot licence from the East African Civil Aviation Academy, in Soroti, in the Eastern Region of Uganda.
[3] Later, she successfully completed type rating training on the CRJ900 at CAE Phoenix, in Mesa, Arizona, United States.
[4] Kayiwa has spent most of her flying career at Air Serv Limited, piloting Cessna 208 Caravans.
[6] She was part of the cockpit crew that made the inaugural flight between Entebbe, Uganda (EBB) and Kilimanjaro, Tanzania (KIA), in 2019.
At that time, she and Tina Drazu were the only two female pilots who were part of the cockpit crew on the A330-841 equipment at Uganda Airlines.