Month: July 2018

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Flying in a Float Plane

We took off from Tofino Harbour flying to downtown Vancouver harbour in a float plane, 8 passengers and one pilot. About 20 minutes into the flight the pilot scrambled from the left seat to the right one and peered out the window. Scrambled back to the first seat and starts shifting the rudder pedals to make the plane yaw. After doing that for a while he announced those interesting words “ I don’t want you to be concerned, it is nothing serious but we have a cover that is open and I am going to land in Nanaimo and have it closed. We landed and it was a cover on the the right hand float, they put the suitcases, wrapped in big plastic bags in the floats. He then told us he had heard the noise of the flapping float and tried to close it by yawing but without success. We flew on to Vancouver with the lady in front of me, the one who asked in Tofino “ we only have one pilot” no longer grasping her husband’s hand.

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Some Suggested Improvements for Viewers

On a lighter note.

After watching the two soccer games yesterday Sunday, Russia-Spain and Denmark-Croatia settled by goal kicks after 30 minutes of added playing time I have a couple of ideas to improve the soccer situation for the viewers.

  1. Have the goal kicks first at the beginning and then play the game, or
  2. Give every player his own ball, so 22 total then play the game and it is over when the first team gets all it’s balls in the opponents net.

And now they have the video assistant review for the referee I propose the referee and the linesmen review the complete video after the game and give a yellow card to each player who clearly faked a fall or an injury. If the fake fall is in the penalty area it is a red card. At the end of each game the player executing the most spectacular fake fall should be presented with a prize, maybe a mini oscar in midfield.

Some other suggestions to improve the viewing experience.

For tennis when serving I think the male players should also be obliged to tuck the spare ball in their underwear and anyone grunting over a measured decibel level loses a point.

American football, last Super Bowl total playing time 12 minutes, total time for 100 advertisements 60 minutes, revenue $45m per minute should be replaced by rugby. In rugby they play for 80 minutes, no ad time and it is actually violent.

For basketball I still think each team should start with 95 points and the game ends after 5 minutes.

I am afraid there is nothing can be done for golf.

I leave you the challenge of suggesting some improvements for baseball.

Amazingly here most of the nation will spend the next two weeks watching a bunch of emaciated, severely drugged men, a tip of the hat to Lance Armstrong, riding bicycles in a race around France.