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, August 31, 2016

Proficiency by pieces

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As I made my way through Redbird's "Winging It" series , I came across a nice description of progressive practice: "Profi...
Wednesday, August 24, 2016

You never know who you'll meet

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As a pilot, I have some amazing co-workers. One of them happens to be a former NFL player and fellow Northeast Ohio native. Here's a sto...
Wednesday, August 17, 2016

And now I'm back again, Part 2

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When I posted this, the entire blog post went Poof! Gone. All that work down the drain. Since it's done in the cloud, there isn't re...
Wednesday, August 10, 2016

And now I'm back again, Part 1

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A couple of weeks ago, I formulated a simple plan of what to study and how much time to spend on it. Now that I'm back from St. Louis an...
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." ...
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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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