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.

Thursday, March 21, 2013

What do these videos have in common?

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So what is it that they have in common? Simple. Whatever it is you're making excuses for not being able to do, somewhere out th...
Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Glass Panels vs. Steam Gauges: Who wins? Who cares? Who needs 'em?

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I'm in my late 30s; firmly in the Gen X category. I grew up playing video games starting with the Atari 2600, and I got a Commodore 64 w...
Monday, March 11, 2013

You've soloed. Now what?

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Once a student has done their second solo, many times all they want to do is stay in the traffic pattern and practice touch-and-goes over an...

They don't build airports like this anymore

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One of the bigger impediments to growing the pilot population is that airports have lost much of their aesthetic charm. Airports are not the...
Friday, March 8, 2013

This six-year-old girl says all there is to say about flying

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Low and slow in a Champ, grins and giggles... this is what flying is all about: Bonus: here's a five-year-old girl actually fl...
Thursday, January 31, 2013

Bob Hoover reveals THE secret to learning ANYTHING

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Like Larry the Flying Guy on Facebook: Follow on Twitter, too: Follow @Lairspeed For those of you who are unfamiliar with Bob ...
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...
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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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