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.

Sunday, September 29, 2013

Forbes Article on How Learning to Fly Teaches You More Than Just How to Fly an Airplane

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There is a good editorial in Forbes about how learning to fly doesn't just teach you to fly , it teaches you a number of useful skills, ...
Saturday, September 21, 2013

Altitude and Airspeed: Money in the bank

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I often describe the relationship between airspeed and altitude as like having a checking account: if you have extra cash, you can deposit i...
Monday, August 26, 2013

Two new weather time lapse videos

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I've created two new weather videos for my YouTube channel . I started off with just the small intention of creating a week-long loop of...
Sunday, July 28, 2013

Some things never change

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Some things never change: Cleveland sports fans will be calling for the Browns to fire their coach if he hasn't won the Super Bowl by th...

NTSB General Aviation Safety Alert Videos

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Earlier in 2013, the NTSB announced they had a list of five common safety issues affecting general aviation and that they would be producing...
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...
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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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