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 23, 2017

Off to see the eclipse!

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By the time you read this, the Great American Eclipse will already have happened on Monday. I'm taking a 9-hour road trip with one of m...
Wednesday, August 16, 2017

The first aviation weather forecast

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It has been over 113 years since the Wright Brothers' first flight. Like most big events, we see the flashy accomplishment but don't...
Wednesday, August 9, 2017

Wilbur Wright to Octave Chanute

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Text of Wilbur Wright's letter to Octave Chanute, Dayton, May 13, 1900. All images from the Library of Congress . For some years I ...
Wednesday, August 2, 2017

I would kill to learn to fly

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Fortunately, today we don't have to be willing to kill to learn to fly. However, in 1893—ten years before the Wright Brothers would make...
Wednesday, July 26, 2017

Smart people do stupid things in emergencies

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The BBC had an interesting article recently called "What not to do in a disaster" . In it, you can find stories of some of the stu...
Wednesday, July 12, 2017

Half a hundred, Part 1

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I spent a good portion of the beginning of the year going over goals: what are good goals, why you need them, and so on. One of the things I...
Wednesday, July 5, 2017

A month with David

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Last month, I switched from my old Bose X headset to the David Clark DC PRO-X . Now that I've had them for a month, how are they perform...
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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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