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.

Thursday, December 25, 2014

Becoming an Airline Pilot, Week 1: Ground school

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Like Larry the Flying Guy on Facebook: Follow on Twitter, too: Follow @Lairspeed It's 0900 on Monday morning. First day. ...
Thursday, December 18, 2014

Becoming an Airline Pilot, Week 0: The post-offer stage

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Like Larry the Flying Guy on Facebook: Follow on Twitter, too: Follow @Lairspeed In my last post , I went over what a typical...
Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Becoming an Airline Pilot, Week 0: The interview

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Like Larry the Flying Guy on Facebook: Follow on Twitter, too: Follow @Lairspeed In Part 1 of this series , I went over my qu...
Friday, December 5, 2014

Becoming an Airline Pilot, Week 0: The pre-hire stage

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Like Larry the Flying Guy on Facebook: Follow on Twitter, too: Follow @Lairspeed I'd planned to start this series much ea...
Monday, June 30, 2014

What do beer and thunderstorms have in common?

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Like Larry the Flying Guy on Facebook: Follow on Twitter, too: Follow @Lairspeed We all know that beer and flying don't m...
Wednesday, June 25, 2014

SPECIAL PROGRAMMING NOTE!

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You've probably noticed that the last several months of posts haven't appeared. Is Keyboard & Rudder dead? Not at all. I'v...
Wednesday, June 11, 2014

The "Fun Curve" of Flying

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Like Larry the Flying Guy on Facebook: Follow on Twitter, too: Follow @Lairspeed One of the ways learning to fly changes your...
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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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