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, November 5, 2013

Flight Training in 76 Seconds

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Learning to fly is one of the best things you will ever do in life. The feeling of awe and accomplishment once you fly an airplane all by yo...
Saturday, November 2, 2013

Hidden Weather Secrets, Literally

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Like Larry the Flying Guy on Facebook: Follow on Twitter, too: Follow @Lairspeed In the modern world, we take the miracle of wea...
Saturday, October 26, 2013

Learn to Fly and Get College Credit: AVIA 111 FAQ

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Q: Is the AVIA 111 course for me? A: Yes. Q: Could you be a little more specific? A: Yes. Since this is the first class you'd prob...

Making Sense of Aviation Weather 2: "T" is for "Terminal"

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Last time, I promised you a warning about TAFs, so this post will be terminal to you. Terminal Aerodrome Forecasts aren't as lethal as...
Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Really Short Field Technique: Nailing your spot every time

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There's another new video over at YouTube by your friendly CFI today: As the title might lead you to believe, it deals with short ...
Monday, October 21, 2013

Making Sense of Aviation Weather 1: Wind isn't just something politicans break

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For me, one of the best things about being a pilot is being able to be up where the weather happens. Although I may like this so much becaus...
Monday, October 14, 2013

Five Years of Flying Fun

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I condensed five years worth of aviation pictures I've taken into just over five minutes, made a video out of them, and put it on YouTub...
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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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