Pilot

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Pilot most commonly refers to:

• Aircraft pilot, a person who flies or navigates an aircraft
• Maritime pilot, a person who guides ships through hazardous waters
• Television pilot, a trial episode made to sell a television series

Pilot or The Pilot may also refer to:

Science and technology

• Pilot experiment, a precursor to a full experiment
• Pilot light, a flame kept continually burning and used to light burners on household appliances
• Pilot signal, or pilot tone, in telecommunications

Biology

• Pilot fish (Naucrates ductor), a small fish
• Pilot whale, a whale-like dolphin

Computing

• Pilot (operating system), designed by Xerox PARC in the 1970s
• PILOT, a computer programming language for computer assisted instruction (CAI)
• Pilot job, a type of multilevel scheduling

Transport

• Piloting or pilotage, the act of navigating by visual landmarks over water or in the air
• Pilot (locomotive), a device that deflects obstacles from the front of a locomotive, also known as a cowcatcher
• Station pilot, a locomotive used for shunting passenger coaches and vans
• Pilotman, a railway worker who ensures that only one train enters a single track rail segment at a time
• Pilot (automobile), three models of automobile produced in the early 1900s
• Honda Pilot, a large crossover SUV sold by Honda
• Ford Pilot, a European Ford sold during the late 1940s

Ships

• HMS Pilot, one of four ships of the British Royal Navy
• Pilot (icebreaker), the first icebreaker ship, built in 1864
• Pilot (boat), a pilot boat and museum ship in San Diego, California

Entertainment

Print

• "Pilot" (short story), by Stephen Baxter
• The Pilot (newspaper), the official newspaper of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston
• The Pilot (Canadian newspaper), a newspaper
• Pilot (UK magazine), a UK-based general aviation magazine
• The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea, an 1824 novel by James Fenimore Cooper
• The Virginian-Pilot, the daily newspaper of Norfolk, Virginia and the surrounding Hampton Roads metro area
• The Pilot, a novel by Robert P. Davis

Film and television

• Pilot No. 5, a 1943 film
• The Pilot (film), a 1980 film adapted from the Davis novel
• Pilot (Farscape), a character in the science fiction television series Farscape
• "The Pilot" (Seinfeld), the two-part season finale of Seinfeld's fourth season
• Pilots (film), a 2000 Malayalam film
• Pilot (studio), a Russian animation studio
• "The Pilot" (Doctor Who), an episode of the tenth series of Doctor Who

Music

• Pilot (band), a pop rock outfit best known for their greatest hit songs "Magic" and "January"
• Pilot (Russian band), a Russian rock band from Saint Petersburg

EPs

• Pilot (Mallory Knox EP), 2011
• Pilot (Reuben EP), 2001

Songs

• "Pilots" (song), a 2002 song by the band Goldfrapp
• "Pilot" (50 Cent song), 2014
• "The Pilot", a 1976 song by England Dan & John Ford Coley from I Hear the Music

Sports

• Portland Pilots, an NCAA Division I athletics program representing the University of Portland
• Seattle Pilots, a professional baseball expansion team that joined the American League in 1969 and became the Milwaukee Brewers the following year

Commerce

• Pilot Flying J, a company that operates truck stops in the United States and Canada
• Pilot (pen company), a Japanese pen manufacturer
• PILOT (finance), in public finance, a payment in lieu of taxes

Other uses

• Pilot (surname)
• Pilot, Virginia, an unincorporated place in the United States
• Pilot, North Carolina (disambiguation), multiple locations

See also

• Pilate (disambiguation)
• Driver (disambiguation)
• All pages beginning with "Pilot"
• All pages beginning with "The Pilot"
• All pages with a title containing Pilot
• List of television pilots named "Pilot"