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, January 27, 2014

Simpsons Sectional Silliness

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These days, there is so much technology that makes the flight planning process easier, simpler, and more accurate. However, the aviation sec...
Wednesday, January 22, 2014

How that 747 landed at the wrong airport in November

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Almost exactly two months ago to the day (November 21, 2013), I posted one of the first stories on the entire Internet giving my best specu...
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Wednesday, January 8, 2014

Top 5 videos of 2013

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The last post ran down the top 5 most popular posts of 2013 and promised to do the same for the videos on the YouTube channel . Without furt...
Saturday, January 4, 2014

Top 5 posts of 2013

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The year 2013 was a great year for Keyboard & Rudder. It has picked up quite a few new readers (welcome!) and all of the five most popul...
Wednesday, January 1, 2014

A Century of Airlines

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Some day people will be crossing oceans on airliners like they do on steamships today. —Thomas Benoist, creator of the Benoist XIV, the wo...
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 ...
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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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