Rowland Rawlings
Mr Rawlings is Manager for the Navigation Domain within the Airspace, 
Network Planning Division. In this role he is responsible for the 
developing and implementing the Navigation Strategy for the States 
of the European Civil Aviation Conference (ECAC). As a result he has 
responsibility for developing the aviation applications of GNSS. He is 
responsible for a team who are enabling navigation developments 
supporting operations in all phases of flight. To this end his team are 
coordinating the implementation of RNAV in en-route and Terminal 
areas to respond to the needs of Air Traffic Management to increase 
airspace capacity whilst increasing efficiency and reducing 
environmental impact.
Before joining Eurocontrol, Roland Rawlings was with the Royal aircraft 
establishment working initially in the Blind Landing Experimental Unit at 
Bedford on ILS and MLS Autoland. He became responsible for studies 
into civil avionics systems and in particular for early development in 
Area Navigation and Flight Management Systems, developing and 
validating system requirements, some of which have subsequently 
been mandated for ECAC operations. However, developments in 
aviation are very slow. He was part of the Bedford Team developing 
4D navigation techniques; requirements were developed and validated 
back in the early 1980s, but implementation seems likely to come to 
fruition only in the 2020 timescale as a result of the SESAR activities.