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.

Monday, May 6, 2013

A Symphony in the Sky: The beautiful complexity of a day's worth of air traffic

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There was a time when "air traffic control" meant that when the pilot decided it was time to land, he picked a field that looked p...
Sunday, May 5, 2013

10 Tips for Acing Your Oral Examination

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Following on my 10 tips for the written post, here are 10 tips for doing well on the oral part of your checkride. 1. Your examiner is not...

10 Tips for Taking Your FAA Written

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This is adapted from a list of tips I give my AVIA 111 (the Private Pilot Ground School at Lorain County Community College) class before th...
Thursday, May 2, 2013

Come chair-fly away with me

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This is the navigational portion of the three-part final exam I give to my AVIA 111 students for the private pilot ground school I teach at...
Tuesday, April 9, 2013

U.S. Weather Patterns: The really big picture

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One of the things that I like most about weather videos is that they really emphasize the point that weather is an extremely dynamic proces...
Thursday, April 4, 2013

Subtropical Storm Andrea: A curiously clear look at the atmosphere at work

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Before we get started, let me apologize if this entry looks like a poorly-constructed, intensely-annoying moving pictures website from the g...
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...
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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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