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.
