Fly-By-TheWire

The change in culture that Powell wanted was one of humility. It was the right change, but the wrong person to do it. Burgess seems to have the right balance and commands the respect of the players. It was always a risk to take Burgess on (and could have gone either way) but something completely left-field was needed, and it’s turned out to be a masterstroke by Middleton.

That wasn't the criticism or doubt I'm talking about. It was whether a former great player would translate to being a good coach. He's already transformed a pretty average Warrington squad into a very competitive side that's getting better each week. And he's overturned one of the top two teams away from home with a very convincing performance with every bit of intensity needed to be a top side. He's only a few months into the job, and hopefully he'll stay true to his word and stick out the full two years before moving to a top NRL post.

Wow. Burgess has finally silenced his critics and doubters.

Touch line reporter: “George, you just ‘nosed’ yourself in front there” Williams: <Scowls>

He could start by replacing Ash Handley with Blake Austin?

I like Tony Smith, as would any Warrington fan, but his strengths lie in taking a ready-built team of star players (like he had at Leeds and Warrington) and tweaking the style to produce trophy-winning sides. Whenever he’s tried to build his own team (like his last few years at Warrington, or the two Hull clubs) it just hasn’t worked. Hopefully his next venture will be something like his earlier positions, because it sure as hell isn’t going to work out at Hull FC.

He needs a season in Super League away from the limelight, for a 'hard reset'. Demetriou also needs to go, as it clearly isn't working. I just hope Sam Burgess stays true to his word and isn't tempted back to the dream job yet.

If you’re like me though, you might replay your own club’s games through the off season when you’re itching for the new season to start. I’m quite happy with the 12 month deal for that reason. Having said that, there’s only the first half of last season that I’d watch again as a Warrington fan

A 150,000 ton container ship travelling at only 5 knots is a lot of momentum. Bridge supports are designed to support a set number of vehicles from from above, so it's no surprise that a container ship would caused this. It's not even the first time it's happened in the States. Id have to Google the last one but that didn't end well either. The mitigation here should be in the ship's design. There should be enough redundancy to allow steering of the ship in a power failure scenario. There probably is, to be honest, but maybe it didn't play out that way for whatever reason. Professor James Reason's Swiss Cheese usually has the answer.

He's far better than Craigie ever would have been, easily. He's just one of those freak talents that is either destined to mature into something great (Inglis) or blow it all by getting complacent after believing all the hype. He's looked overweight and unfit since the World Cup, at least compared to how he was when he first burst on to the scene. A real shame as he was Box Office stuff. At least there are plenty of other very good young full backs eligible for Australia.

I'm not sure Brisbane and NQ qualifies as a typical Good Friday Derby. Broncos vs Redcliffe would be more tasty. Last year's game was a fantastic atmosphere.

You could see Ratchford had missed straight away, as before the ball reached the sticks he put his face in his hands! Shame, but at least he has the Super League record, and still equals the world record. The most encouraging thing about this game was the way that so many academy graduates just slotted straight in and didn't look out of place. And most of those were juniors local to the Warrington area. So far Burgess has been both a revolution and a revelation in that regard. He just seems to get the most out of what he has to work with, and whilst this Warrington team doesn't yet look like a title-winning one, it's starting to look like a serious play-off contender. I'll admit to being pleasantly surprised.

Apart from a little glitch the other day, getting back on after half-time, SL+ has been good. Easily worth the £10 a month on the yearly subscription.. I’m enjoying the fact they can’t show the adverts during the breaks.

https://avherald.com/h?article=515e3618&opt=0 Not really the fault of the 737, but more negative publicity yesterday.

There are a few issues at play here, and they're not related to the rudder problem of the 'classic' 737s made infamous from the accidents in the 80s and 90s (although a phenomenon known as 'cold soaking' may be the root cause of both, I guess we'll see). The original rudder problems of the 737 Classic were solved by a retrofitted redesigned rudder actuation system, and on newer 737s is a completely different system with redundancy that allows a sensed jammed actuator to be overridden. Firstly, I should point out that this incident is not specifically related to the 737 MAX. It has happened twice on the previous generation of 737s known as the 'Next Gen' or 'NG' variants (-600/700/800/900 series). I don't want to go too technical, but when it's foggy the low visibility makes it to difficult to land the aeroplane manually by visual means. For this reason, autopilots on most large modern jets can perform an automatic landing providing the wind is fairly calm (as it usually is in foggy conditions). Some of these autopilots can only control two axes, the roll (bank) and pitch (nose up and down) of the aircraft during landing, but the pilot has to control the rudder himself/herself after touchdown (the 'rollout'). However, there are also some autopilots that can control the 'rollout' using a 3rd 'yaw' axis through the rudder after landing. Having this capability means that you can perform an automatic landing at even lower visibility than the 2-channel auto land (75m vs 200m). This 3rd axis is controlled by the 'rollout guidance servo' mentioned in the tweet. The 737 traditionally has a 2-axis autoland system, but there is an option to have the 3-axis one installed. The airline in question here took delivery of an aircraft with a 3-axis autoland, but with the 3rd axis 'rollout guidance servo' deactivated. I'm not sure what the deactivation involved, but crucially the servo was still mechanically linked to one of the torque tubes that is connected to all three rudder Power Control Units (PCUs). It appears that the servo became jammed when exposed to long period of low temperatures, and actuated the linkage to make an input to the two active main PCUs. I'm still not sure why or how a deactivated servo could somehow influence the rudder system, but then I'm not that familiar with the rollout option on 737s (not many have it fitted, as it's quite rare to get visibility below 200m). An input on the flight controls by the pilot should trigger a disconnect of the servos from the system under normal circumstances, so it's a bit disconcerting that this didn't seem to do the trick. However, the NTSB didn't rush to ground the fleet, which leads me to think they're not too concerned about the ability to override the system. Maybe the pilots just didn't feel the need to apply that much pressure on the rudder pedals at the later stages on the rollout, so elected to use the nosewheel steering tiller instead until they were clear of the active runway, then applied a bigger input to finally cause the disconnect. Whatever the case, it's just another chink of bad publicity for Boeing. I'm not aware of any rollout guidance issues occurring on the Airbus family, which are all fitted with 3-axis autoland systems as standard.