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 24, 2015

The Christmas Candy Bomber: A heartwarming true story

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Best wishes to you and yours for a wonderful holiday season. There was no post last Wednesday as I was in the middle of a 13-out-of-14 day w...
Wednesday, December 2, 2015

Why a vacuum failure in IMC is an emergency

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Not long ago, I wrote a post trying to figure out why some pilots are more likely than others to declare an emergency . More specifically, I...
Thursday, November 26, 2015

Crepuscular Rays on Thanksgiving Day

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I have a lot to be thankful for this year, and I hope you do, too. I'm thankful that I got off reserve at the beginning of this year an...
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Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Tmeless yet contemporary

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Here's a quick and easy way to have a bit of fun. Try to identify which of the following seven statements were said by Orville Wright an...
Wednesday, November 4, 2015

Best rejection ever.

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Our Dulles-Newark flight has a bit of a crazy flight plan. Instead of going anywhere near a straight line, it starts out in the right direct...
Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Weather pictures speak a thousand words, Part 2: Weather hazards

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Part 1 had lots of pictures of air masses demonstrating how much the atmosphere flows like water . This time, let's see what happens whe...

Weather pictures speak a thousand words, Part 1: The air flowing like water

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During the private pilot ground school I teach at the local college, we spend two full weeks on weather. Some people's eyes glaze over ...
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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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