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, July 27, 2016

Sleeping on the job

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Note: Since I'm away in St. Louis doing ERJ-145 transition training, here's a topic that I wanted to address when it happened but ha...
Wednesday, July 20, 2016

Here I go again

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It's just over two years since I started on the path I'm on . It's one I've enjoyed a lot more than I thought I would, becau...
Wednesday, July 13, 2016

Farewell, Fair Dash

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"That's the smallest airplane I've ever seen." "I think I jumped out of one of these when I went skydiving." ...
Wednesday, July 6, 2016

Time flies when you do

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Dashing heroes. Boring buttonpushers. Depending on who you talk to, airline pilots are one of these. Like most things in life, the tru...
Wednesday, June 29, 2016

The 9/11 Memorial at ALPA Headquarters

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The events of 9/11/01 changed many landscapes on many levels: that of New York City, the political landscape, and in a small way, the lands...
Wednesday, June 15, 2016

Last flight with my best passenger

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All lines in a logbook are the same, but not all the hours in it are. As we fill up the pages of our logbook, some entries are more specia...
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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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