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.

Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Emergency!

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It's a beautiful day for flying. The winds are light, the sky is clear, and the temperature is perfect. It's the sort of day where y...
Wednesday, September 16, 2015

How to crush something without touching it

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What if I told you I can crush a water bottle without touching it? You probably wouldn't believe me, would you? Of course you wouldn...
Wednesday, September 9, 2015

What you can't see can hurt you: Avoiding wake turbulence

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I recently came across a very nice picture of wingtip vortices. (Unfortunately, it was passed to me without any information on who took it o...
Sunday, August 30, 2015

NORDO because of DUMBO

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Keyboard & Rudder has been as silent as your local NDB antenna for over a month. It's not dead: I was just brain dead. In July, I ...
Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Goldilocks and the Three Descent Rates: Too much, too little, and just right

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Recently, I created a video where I mash up Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and Microsoft Flight Simulator X into a lesson on how to figure ou...
Wednesday, June 3, 2015

The gorilla in the cockpit

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Selective attention/blindness isn't just something husbands and teenagers have. Check out this video that demonstrates in only one minu...
Wednesday, May 27, 2015

The Permanence of Temporary Things: A Meditation

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In the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, On the trail of the lonesome pine— In the pale moonshine our hearts entwine, W...
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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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