Keyboard and Rudder: A blog on the Art of Flying

Demystifying the process of learning to fly for everyone from the beginning student to the certificated pilot looking to improve their skills. Heavy on the basics of stick and rudder skills, with unscheduled landings on other varied topics like weather and the sheer beauty and joy of flight.

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Meet your instructor

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There are two types of people: pilots, and everyone else. I take the massive second group and turn them into the elite first group. Not co...

Saturday, March 10, 2012

Close to solo!

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I've got an accelerated individual I've been working with recently. He's from out of state and had to leave for a little bit to ...

Monday, January 23, 2012

Dreaming the life

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[A] wing is an odd thing, strangely behaved, hard to understand, tricky to handle. --Wolfgang Langewiesche, Stick and Rudder You might f...

Cleared for Approach

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Once you have tasted flight, you will walk forever with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will long to return...

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About Me

Larry M. Coleman: I'm an airline pilot and a CFI, CFII (CFI - Instrument), and MEI (Multi-engine Instructor). Since I can't get enough of aviation, I also have an AGI (Advanced Ground Instructor) and IGI (Instrument Ground Instructor) certificate. I spent years as the IT guy for a hospital, but after getting tired of feeling like I was living in the movie Office Space, I decided that the only office worth sitting in all day was one a mile in the sky. Now I get paid to, as John Gillespie Magee, Jr. so elegantly put it, "dance the skies on laughter-silvered wings, climb sunward and join the tumbling mirth of sun-split clouds, and do a hundred things you have not dreamed of." I also teach the Private Pilot Ground School (AVIA 111) at Lorain County Community College, so you can earn college credit while you earn your pilot certificate!

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