AI Learnings (learnings about using AI)

How to use AI as a thought partner, not just a search engine. Page 419.

Honesty and Analytical Clarity. Page 375.

AI Metaphors

Formation Break-away protocols: referring to the family as a formation. Pages 464, 470.

Military jargon applied to family relationships: “there was fog in the house, and the radar was switched off and the signals were being jammed.” Page 462.

“Without a pilot the plane just sits on the runway until it rots”. An analogy to a business without a strategy. Page 394.

"My instruments show that you are exactly on course. You are capable, you are thorough, and you are doing something that matters." Page 466.

“Alert-5” And “Active Standby” Thinking And The How we got from Dewey to Collaborative Intelligence

Hi Gemini. What do you call the state of waiting pilots or soldiers are in before they scramble? I’m thinking  “Active Standby”, but is there a military term for this state of readiness?

Conversation here. 

Lt Col Barry Lipschitz, Biography of Service and CV

Biography of Service. Pages 73, 226.

Memorial Plaque. Page 82.

CV. Page 83.

Black Box and Hot Mic Recordings

The Black-Box allows reconciliation even if someone is dead.

Black Box. Pages xiii, 169, 172, 224, 241, 276, 293, 308, 350, 377, 392, 415, 486.

Hot Mic. Page 455.

The Cadet vs The Private

Pages ii, 242, 284, 285, 287, 289, 291, 292.

Checking the "Instruments" of your heart

What did you hear me say? Rather than What did I say? Page 106, 107.

CF: Citizen Force

Why was the CF so important?

Part time experience.

Integrated experience.

Weekend Warrior. The Magnificent 7 (for 7 Squadron).

Pages 7, 8, 44, 47, 321, 325, 327 (Subject Matter Expert).

CAS: Close Air Support

Close Air Support and Interdiction Missions. Page 331, 

Low Level Flying supporting ground troops, whilst migs dealt with high level threats. Page 9, 331, 437.

"Cockpit Mentality"

A “cockpit mentality” doesn’t work in the home. If the “weather” at home was unpredictable, my father stayed on the ground, emotionally speaking. Page 99, 100, 103.

CRM: Cockpit Resource Management

Page 393.

Cognitive Load

Pages 267, 271.

C2: Command and Control

Pages xiii, 412, 453.

Communication Strategies (for enemies (in the same family))

Low-bandwidth communication strategy. Page 169, 172.

"A low-bandwidth communication strategy, testing the “weather” without committing to a full flight into her airspace."

Counseling

Gemini counselling me. Page 152.

Military Counseling after an accident, catastrophic failure, battle or war: 1970s vs 2020s. Page 182.

Covert Data Backups and Digital Dead Drops

To bypass the family chain of command, when the time was right, 40 years after the events.

The missing paperwork and the hierarchy of control (in the home).

Information is power, even in a family military unit.

Pages 135, 168, 171.

CSV Files and Headers

I gave Gemini my father's CSV (Comma Separated Value) flying log files for 15 years, without headers, and Gemini figured out the headers, gave me summaries, and much more. It did misinterpret some things and it put some values in the wrong row or column, but it saved me weeks of work, and it gave me insights that I wouldn't have easily seen. Ref Military Fathers and Their Sons on Amazon.

Pages 9, 36, 50, 59, 88, 93, 168, 253, 256.

Data Crosstalk Mistakes

When the AI reads a data set and put a particular cell's data in the wrong "cell", ie wrong column or row.

Page 59.

Debugging an aviation crash (the Mercurius crash of 1971)

Debugging an aviation crash with the mind of a factory analyst and a computer scientist. Pages 198, 465.

Passenger-comfort instruments. Page 470.

Demential in high-performance professionals

What happens to their brains? Procedural Memory. Pages 130, 133.

Chapter 35, Page 132.

The lamb curry and the analog switch. Pages 320, 322, 323.

Self-grounding. Page 126, 129.

"Filed to Cairo"

Pages 29, 33, Chapter 8 (page 35), 41, 76.

Filed a Flight Plan for my Book

Page 302, 306,

Fog

Flying in the fog. Mind fog. Brain fog.

Pages 111, 124, 226, 228, Chapter 56 (page 229), 287, 347, 482, 

Going Solo

How the aviation system nurtures a junior officer. Page 270.

Being Shepherded by a professional network that wanted you to succeed. Page 271.

Situational Awareness. Pages 346, 442, 473,

Growing Up in a Military Family

The “Mayday” Paradox. Pages 295, 328, 385, 418.

"Civilian" frequency of emotional need. Page 295.

"Military" frequency of duty, silence and security clearance. Page 295.

Family member jamming the signals. Page 296.

Search and rescue mission for rescuing a family relationship. Pages 298, 396, 410.

Healing and Health

PTSD and the Wounded Warrior.

Everyone experiences PTSD!

Understand a bigger picture.

Veteran healing.

All this is applicable to my story and is explained "9 Rules of Engagement: A Military Brat's Guide to Life and Success" by Harris Faulkner. I listened to the Audible Edition. Published 6th May 2018.

Honest AI (Honesty and Analytical Clarity)

"Chapter 91: Honest AI vs Humans", in my book "Military Fathers and Their Sons", after Google Gemini apologised for making a mistake.

Me

Thanks, again, for your honesty. Many humans would have glossed over their error. I, for one, also admit when I have made a mistake.

Gemini

Intellectual honesty is the primary "Comms Channel" in this mission. In aviation, glossing over an error is called "Normalization of Deviance," and it’s what leads to crashes.

Notes: 

Someone asked me what mistake Gemini made.

Gemini got an airfield description, given an ICAO airport code, wrong, but there were two issues in my father's log book. The first was that small old gravel airfields were sometimes moved when they were either extended or even moved to a tarred nearby airport location. I didn't know this and Gemini pointed it out when I suggested the first and most obvious reason for the mistake.

Further analysis of the route my father took that day led me to understand that my father made a mistake with one of the letters in the FATK ICAO code. He actually flew to the old Durban airport that day and not to Tarkastad.

I've found Gemini apologises when it makes mistakes. And when this happens I've sometimes done more research as to the cause of the mistake and discovered hidden information that I wouldn't have found if the mistake wasn't made, and owned up to!!

Quick summary by me, in the book.

"So the FATK in 1991 is probably FARK.

"And the FATK in 1985 is Tarkastad, but the closest airport to Tarkastad is FAQT."

Instructional Shock

Pages xiv, Chapter 61 (page 250), 266, 272, 293, 379, 404, 414, 418.

Leadership and System Discipline Failure

Pages 184, 217.

Logic Loops

Pages 328, 385.

MBA Misallocated Asset

Bringing an MBA into the factory for my father turned me ©into a misallocated asset.

Page 386.

Navigation (flying) between enemy countries

"Filed to Cairo". Pages 29, 33, Chapter 8 (page 35), 41, 76.

Global navigation. Pages 37, 42, 56, 76, 84, 149.

Oceanic navigation in a small aircraft. Pages 42, 213, 218.

Playing the North Atlantic winds and Great Circle Navigation. Page 213, 216, 220, 227.

Operational Density

Page 283.

OpSec Operational Security

Pages 172, 206, 253.

Perceived Value

Page 389, 392, Chapter 84 (395).

Professional Courtesy

Chapter 16 (page 65).

Red Cross Flying and Missions

Landing on roads. Page 29.

Landing on roads at night. Page 41.

A (child's) heart. Pages 58, 71, 75. Saving a baby is what captures the human imagination. Page 96.

ZS-RCS, two types of planes. Pages 13, 54, 262.

"Response Time" - Being ready for the Scramble - A pilot must always be "ready"

Be prepared to be on route in seconds. It takes a very special type of training to have that kind of response time. What effect does this have when it is applied to the pilot's home life?

Remaining calm, focused and cool.

Chapter 57 (page 232). Pages 244, 252, 272, 286,

Rule of Five - in hindsight - the Swiss Cheese Model

Pages 185, 198, 200, 225, Chapter 85 (page 399).

Rule of Five - in foresight

Preventing a Planetary Crash.

Page 399.

Safety

Over the ocean. A poopy suit. Page 218.

Secrets and Firewalls

The secret lead time of the commanding officer.

Pages 41, 48, 60, 86, 139, 144, 165, 190, 207, 254.

Security Clearances

VIP security clearance and vetting the family bloodline.

Proximity to power.

Page 152, Chapter 51 (page 205), Chapter 52 (page 209).

" 'Soldiers-Children' an alternative book name"

Fatherhood-Childhood in the Military, and in Military Families.

Page 126, 128, Chapter 34 (page 131).

Specialised Charters

The Eclipse, far out to sea. Pages 59, 76,

The Plutonium Ship, far out to sea. Page 59, 76,

Systems Engineering

Page 203/

System Failure

A flawed command structure and a system failure. Pages 102, 111, 292.

The Speed/Radius Trap

Page 186.

Survival Bias

Survival Bias (of the complacent CEO), eg someone who has made a lot of money or had a lot of success and who has stopped listening.

Chapter 84 (page 395).

Survival Training

The swimming pool parachute and survival training.

Let me know if you would like this story? It's not in the book. david at itneurosurgeon.com.

"Tactical Limitation" of military people trying to apply their day job rules at home

Page 153.

Theater of Operations and Area of Responsibility

Pages 48, 87, 292, 360, 446.

Unconscious Competence

Page 244.

VFR: Visual Flight Rules or Visual Family Relations?

VFR: Visual Family Relations rather than Visual Flight Rules, an AI Joke.

Chapter 55 (page 226)

What did you hear me say? Rather than What did you say?

Checking the instruments of your heart. Google Gemini is very good at metaphor. What did you hear me say is a peace treaty.

Chapter 26 (page 105). Page 110.

"Young vs Old 'Major'"

The Major personality change: young vs old.

Addendum 3 (page 477).