SELEX Systems Integration presents annual Air Traffic Award at RAF Shawbury

6 June 2011 – For the 4th year running, SELEX Systems Integration has sponsored the Royal Air Force's Dziuba Trophy – the annual award for the RAF Air Traffic Controller who has shown the most potential through and beyond phase two training.

The Trophy acknowledges achievements in training while at Shawbury, as well as how the controller has progressed once at an Air Traffic Control tower.

The winner of the Dziuba Trophy for 2010 was Flight Lieutenant Emily McCulloch. Emily spent late 2008 and early 2009 training at the North Shropshire airbase, and graduated from the Joint Air Traffic Control Course (JATCC) in April 2009 with the highest overall theory mark of the year. Emily was then selected for the Area Radar Training Course, and subsequently posted to the Scottish Air Traffic Control Central at Prestwick, near Ayr, upon her final graduation. Since then, she has gained full endorsement and taken on a variety of duties. She is the deputy unit training officer and oversees the day-to-day training of controllers. She is also a deputy flight commander, Officer in Charge of Welfare, and lead Equality and Diversity Adviser.

The SELEX Systems Integration-sponsored Dziuba Trophy is named after Wing Commander Steve Dziuba, who was an Officer Commanding Operations Wing at Shawbury and the Officer Commanding the Air Traffic Control Examining Board at the unit until losing his battle to cancer in 2006.

The Trophy was presented to Flt Lt McCulloch at a special ceremony at the unit, by SELEX Systems Integration’s Head of Transport, Marc Ellis. Also present were Steve’s widow, Squadron Leader Christine Dziuba, Air Officer Commanding Battlespace Management, Air Commodore Crayford, and SELEX Systems Integration CEO, Michael Clayforth-Carr.

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