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 10, 2019

Fifty years makes an out-of-this-world difference

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Friday is April 12th. Two aviation firsts were set on the 12th, fifty years apart. The difference between them takes us from a short hop by ...
Wednesday, March 20, 2019

There are worse ways to practice

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My last post was a little on the serious side , so this time I'd like to lighten the mood a bit. I've written many a post on pract...
Wednesday, March 6, 2019

This is where it's probably going to happen.

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It is almost midnight on a mid-January day. In front of me, the windscreen is filled with clouds. The landing lights in the nosewheel light ...
Wednesday, February 6, 2019

X-Plane to Real Plane

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One of the original themes of this blog was supposed to be bridging flight simulators and the real world, with occasional diversions into ot...
Wednesday, December 12, 2018

Not within a thousand years

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Monday will mark the 115th anniversary of the Wright Brothers' flight at Kitty Hawk. With the passage of time, major breakthroughs like ...
Wednesday, May 16, 2018

Happy Birthday, Dad

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My father passed away over 8 years ago. He loved flying with me, and I loved taking him up flying. He died four years before I would fly my ...
Monday, April 30, 2018

Richard Collins gone west

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Yesterday, aviation writing legend Richard Collins passed away at the age of 84. In his over five decades as the timekeeper of aviation hist...
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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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