{"id":2655,"date":"2021-03-07T21:04:05","date_gmt":"2021-03-07T21:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/?p=2655"},"modified":"2021-03-16T21:09:27","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T21:09:27","slug":"aircraft-doesnt-know-if-pilot-is-female-or-male-wing-commander-shaliza-dhami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2021\/03\/aircraft-doesnt-know-if-pilot-is-female-or-male-wing-commander-shaliza-dhami.html","title":{"rendered":"Aircraft Doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t Know If Pilot is Female or Male : Wing Commander Shaliza Dhami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With over three decades women being in the Indian Air Force, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a lot to celebrate about women in the Armed Forces. From Republic Day parades to flying fighter jets, women are touching the sky with glory. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It will be almost three decades for woman officers in IAF. Aircraft doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know whether it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a male or female officer who is flying it. It is the journey to sit in the aircraft that says everything \u00e2\u20ac\u201d whether we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be able to do it or not,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Wing Commander Shaliza Dhami said to ANI.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2656\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2656\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/cmndr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2656\" src=\"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/cmndr.jpg\" alt=\"Wing Commander Shaliza Dhami\" width=\"650\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/cmndr.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/cmndr-300x171.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2656\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wing Commander Shaliza Dhami<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153If we were incapable of doing it, then we wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have been at the spot. I have put in more 17 years of service and there are so many others like me,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d adds Wing Commander Shaliza Dhami.<br \/>\nThe headcount of women in the military has increased almost three-fold over the last six years. The overall population of women, as per a recent discussion in Parliament, is almost 10,000 across the forces. There are 9,118 women currently serving the army, navy and air force. Just five years ago this figure was just one third.<br \/>\nBack in 2016, India made history with the first ever batch of women fighter pilots get formally inducted into the forces. The commissioning ceremony took place at the Indian Air Force Academy in Hakimpet in Telangana that saw former Late Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar in attendance. Avani Chaturvedi, Mohana Singh and Bhawna Kanth are the three pilots who were selected by the IAF, and after months of rigorous training they joined the fighter squadron.<br \/>\n07\/03\/21 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shethepeople.tv\/news\/aircraft-doesnt-know-if-pilot-is-female-or-male-women-in-air-force\/\">SheThePeople<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With over three decades women being in the Indian Air Force, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a lot to celebrate about women in the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-motivational-stories","category-pilots"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/cmndr.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}