Awarded to the most meritorious student pilot graduating from a college or school of civil or military aviation. Particular consideration will be given to the candidate’s progress during the course, including qualities of character, leadership, involvement in sport, recreation and voluntary service, in addition to flying and academic achievement.
(previously the Alan Cobham Prize/The Sir Alan Cobham Memorial Award)
Alexander joined FTEJerez through Middle East Airline's cadet programme. Selection for this programme, in which FTEJerez participates conducting assessments, is extremely competitive. Alexander was selected for training following an outstanding performance in all areas.
In hindsight, this comes as no surprise. His final report following training at FTEJerez is impeccable. In ground school he obtained a 93% average score in all exams and his theoretical instructors praise his contributions to class debates and positive and proactive attitude. This demeanour was also evident during flight training, where he obtained first time passes in all tests and received outstanding reports from his flight instructors. Finally, during his multi-crew training (APS MCC), Alexander once again was well prepared and achieved a Grade 1 (outstanding performance).
Alexander managed to do this during the pandemic and the worst weeks of lockdown, and in his capacity of President of the Student Committee. While most students returned home during lockdown to continue attending online ground school or to wait until they could safely resume flight training, some international students could not do so due to travel restrictions and had to stay at the FTE campus. Alexander decided to voluntarily stay on campus too, and make sure that his colleagues were supported in anyway necessary, that health & safety regulations were followed, and to liaise with FTE's management on a daily basis, acting as a spokesperson for his colleagues.
The degree of maturity and organisation skills shown during these trying times were outstanding. Alexander demonstrated skills one would personally expect from a management team, always doing so with a gentle, respectful and empathic approach. He would provide suggestions and solutions to any problems arising, would be always available for his colleagues and FTE management, and took on this huge responsibility without hindering his academic performance. Due to this, Alexander was offered to stay on campus upon graduation on an internship in FTEJerez’s operations department, where he provided support to their HoT and Ops Manager. Consequently, Alexander was also recently awarded with the Mike Bannister Trophy at his FTEJerez graduation ceremony. This trophy is awarded only on very exceptional and rare occasions to students demonstrating an outstanding performance in all aspects of their student life at FTEJerez.
Alexander is deserving of further recognition of his performance during flight training and a high note with which to commence his career as a first officer, and undoubtedly a future captain, for his airline. For his qualities of character, leadership, and service, demonstrated during his course, in addition to flying and academic achievement, Alexander El Khawaja is awarded the Glover Trophy.
1966/67 Captain F H Hawkins
1968 - 1970 not awarded
1970/71 Captain M A Lewis
1971/72 Captain Hugh Dibley
1974/75 G S Vaizey
1975/76 J V Fanning
1976/77 Laith Al-Omar
1977/78 N C Lewton
1978/79 Pavlos Attalides
1979/80 Michael Joseph Sheen
1980/81 David Stanley Balman
1981/82 Paul Tomlinson
1982/83 Rudolf Van Berkel
1983/84 Robert Martinus Page
1984/85 Alan Robert Beurle
1985/86 Lee Boon Hup
1986/87 Chee Tuck Lai
1987/88 Gurmit Singh
1989 not awarded
1989/90 Stephen Riley
1990/91 E D Troy
1991/92 Michael G Edwards
1992/93 Wilson Wai Yin Tang
1993/94 Simon Galvin
1994/95 Candice Hinrichsen
1995/96 Martin Peter Goddard
1996/97 Mark R Bishton
1997/98 Stuart J Geddes
1998/99 Nicholas Talboys
1999/2000 Jacob Sorensen
2000/01 Mark Cameron
2001/02 Richard Driscoll
2002/03 Ilkka A Tahvanainen
2003/04 Donald Nwajei
2004/05 Jessica Mary Telford
2005/06 not awarded
2006/07 Stephen A Robinson
2007/08 Charles Waters
2008/09 Vincent Dusseau
2009/10 Kelly McQuaid
2010/11 Captain David Parker RCAF
2011/12 Glen Robert Harrison
2012/13 Myriam Gardeazabal
2013/14 Flt Lt Jonathan Hubbleday RAF
2014/15 Flt Lt Thomas Hansford RAF
2016 Flt Lt Jennifer A N Boyd BSc MSc RAF
2017 SAC Aaron A Garcha
2018 not awarded
2019 Lt Michael Plant RN
2020 not awarded
2021 Capt James Lowrey AAC
2022 Alexander El Khawaja
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