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, September 20, 2017

Gear Down and Welded

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This week over on the Larry the Flying Guy channel on YouTube, I got a comment on this video implying that it's not necessary to check f...
Wednesday, September 13, 2017

Never too old to spread your wings

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It has always been thought that you can't teach an old dog new tricks. Unless you're dumber than a dog, this isn't actually true...
Wednesday, September 6, 2017

Even the best want to get better

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Unless you're into chess, you probably don't know Wesley So . He is currently ranked second in the world, and from July 2016 until A...
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...
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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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