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, March 21, 2018

You know you've found the right job when...

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In my former life, I was an IT guy. I liked it, but I can't say I was in love with it. I certainly can't say I ever looked forward t...
Wednesday, February 21, 2018

The blank canvas of the white darkness

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This week, the New Yorker published a long story on an Antarctic journey . Although it took me over an hour to read, it was time well spent...
Wednesday, December 20, 2017

The Aviator's Night Before Christmas

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'Twas the night before Christmas, and out on the ramp, Not an airplane was stirring, not even a Champ. The aircraft were fastened to t...
Wednesday, November 29, 2017

Flying the Mississippi: Preface

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A quick and easy request: Please do me a favor and subscribe to the Larry the Flying Guy channel. YouTube has changed their policies in a w...
Wednesday, November 15, 2017

Flying the Mississippi: Real-world flight plan

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When I fly this in real life, I certainly don't plan on breaking it into almost 70 legs. I will be doing it over five days. That will gi...
Wednesday, November 1, 2017

Flying the Mississippi: Introduction

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From the book-in-progress, Flying the Mississippi. Introduction This is the sort of flight I'd want to take, so I'm simply writ...

Flying the Mississippi: Table of Contents

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Flying the Mississippi posts If it has a hyperlink, then that chapter been published. If it doesn't, then it's coming soon. An e...
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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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