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, April 19, 2017

A regulation nobody studies

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I'm busy the next two weeks getting emergency after emergency thrown at me as I do my Captain upgrade simulator sessions, so here's...
Wednesday, April 12, 2017

Don't give yourself far to fall

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In the near future, I'm going to be negotiating a part of our union's contract with our airline. To prepare, I've been studying...
Wednesday, February 15, 2017

An aviation dogfight on the back of the car

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Since I have the best wife ever , I bought her a new car for Valentine's Day. This meant we had to get new license plates. The old c...
Wednesday, February 8, 2017

Turn the page: The downside of being an airline pilot

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A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a short post that sums up one of the best things about my job . This week, I'll share what the worst thin...
Wednesday, February 1, 2017

Embrace the Suck, Squeeze, Bang, and Blast

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One of the things that any basic pilot ground school covers is how engines create power. Jet engines and piston engines have the same four s...
Wednesday, January 25, 2017

What pilots and sailors have in common

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I've been reading The Perfect Storm this month and I came across this selection: There's no reason to touch the wheel unless ...
Wednesday, December 14, 2016

Truly Terrific Telegram

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Saturday will mark 113 years since the Wright Brothers walked four miles to the Kitty Hawk weather station to send a short telegram to their...
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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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