How to use AI as a thought partner, not just a search engine. Page 419.
Honesty and Analytical Clarity. Page 375.
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.
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.
Biography of Service. Pages 73, 226.
Memorial Plaque. Page 82.
CV. Page 83.
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.
Pages ii, 242, 284, 285, 287, 289, 291, 292.
What did you hear me say? Rather than What did I say? Page 106, 107.
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).
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.
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.
Page 393.
Pages 267, 271.
Pages xiii, 412, 453.
Low-bandwidth communication strategy. Page 169, 172.
"A low-bandwidth communication strategy, testing the “weather” without committing to a full flight into her airspace."
Gemini counselling me. Page 152.
Military Counseling after an accident, catastrophic failure, battle or war: 1970s vs 2020s. Page 182.
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.
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.
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 with the mind of a factory analyst and a computer scientist. Pages 198, 465.
Passenger-comfort instruments. Page 470.
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.
Pages 29, 33, Chapter 8 (page 35), 41, 76.
Page 302, 306,
Flying in the fog. Mind fog. Brain fog.
Pages 111, 124, 226, 228, Chapter 56 (page 229), 287, 347, 482,
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,
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.
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.
"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."
Pages xiv, Chapter 61 (page 250), 266, 272, 293, 379, 404, 414, 418.
Pages 184, 217.
Pages 328, 385.
Bringing an MBA into the factory for my father turned me ©into a misallocated asset.
Page 386.
"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.
Page 283.
Pages 172, 206, 253.
Page 389, 392, Chapter 84 (395).
Chapter 16 (page 65).
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.
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,
Pages 185, 198, 200, 225, Chapter 85 (page 399).
Preventing a Planetary Crash.
Page 399.
Over the ocean. A poopy suit. Page 218.
The secret lead time of the commanding officer.
Pages 41, 48, 60, 86, 139, 144, 165, 190, 207, 254.
VIP security clearance and vetting the family bloodline.
Proximity to power.
Page 152, Chapter 51 (page 205), Chapter 52 (page 209).
Fatherhood-Childhood in the Military, and in Military Families.
Page 126, 128, Chapter 34 (page 131).
The Eclipse, far out to sea. Pages 59, 76,
The Plutonium Ship, far out to sea. Page 59, 76,
Page 203/
A flawed command structure and a system failure. Pages 102, 111, 292.
Page 186.
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).
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.
Page 153.
Pages 48, 87, 292, 360, 446.
Page 244.
VFR: Visual Family Relations rather than Visual Flight Rules, an AI Joke.
Chapter 55 (page 226)
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.
The Major personality change: young vs old.
Addendum 3 (page 477).