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, December 30, 2013

Airport for aliens?

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I'm minding my own business, innocently wandering around a sectional chart, and I come across an oddly-shaped restricted area (R-4404) i...
Saturday, December 28, 2013

How can two things be the same and different at the same time?

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In the first part of this post, I explained why runway symbols change at 8069 feet. That post started innocently enough with this sectional ...
Thursday, December 26, 2013

Why do runway symbols change at 8,069 feet?

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Like Larry the Flying Guy on Facebook: Follow on Twitter, too: Follow @Lairspeed A popular question during the oral portion of a...
Tuesday, December 24, 2013

Santa's Base of Operations

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Everyone thinks Santa flies his reindeer out of the North Pole. That's a clever piece of misdirection to keep his real airport free of ...
Sunday, December 22, 2013

When things don't add up

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A month ago, I wrote a post explaining how that 747 might have landed at the wrong airport . Instead of calling them stupid or incompetent o...
Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Ten for 110: Ten things you might not know about the Wright brothers

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Today, December 17, 2013, marks 110 years since the Wright brothers first flew at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. The world changed that day (al...
Saturday, December 14, 2013

Flying China's "Smog Road"

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If you're an instrument-rated pilot, you're quite familiar with flying an ILS, since you have to perform at least one on your check...
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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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