Pilot (disambiguation)
Appearance
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Pilot or The Pilot may refer to:
Common uses
- Aircraft pilot, a person who flies or navigates an aircraft
- Maritime pilot, a person who guides ships through hazardous waters
- Piloting (navigation) or pilotage, the act of navigating by visual landmarks over water or in the air
- Television pilot, a television episode used to sell a series to a television network
- Pilot experiment, a small-scale preliminary study conducted prior to a full-scale research project
- Pilot plant, a pre-commercial production system used to evaluate new technologies and designs
Places
- Pilot (župa), a county of Serbia in the Middle Ages
- Pilot, Davidson County, North Carolina
- Pilot, Franklin County, North Carolina
- Pilot, Virginia, an unincorporated place in the United States
- Pilot Branch or Pilot Creek, a stream in Missouri
- Pilot Glacier, Victoria Land, Antarctica
- Pilot Hill, in Hampshire, UK
- Pilot Island, in Lake Michigan, Wisconsin
- Pilot Mountains, a mountain range in Nevada
People
- Pilot (surname)
- Pilot Baba (born 1938), Indian spiritual guru, fighter pilot with the Indian Air Force
Arts, entertainment, and media
Fictional character
- Jennifer "Pilot" Chase, a character in the TV series Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future
- Pilot (Farscape), a character in the science fiction television series Farscape
Films
- Pilot No. 5, a 1943 film
- Pilots (film), a 2000 Malayalam film
- The Pilot (film), a 1980 film adapted from the Davis novel
Literature
- "Pilot" (short story), by Stephen Baxter
- The Pilot, a novel by Robert P. Davis
- The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea, an 1824 novel by James Fenimore Cooper
Music
Groups
- 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
- "Pilot" (50 Cent song), 2014
- "Pilot", a 2014 song by the British band Amber Run
- "Pilot", a 1970 song by the band Blue Cheer from The Original Human Being
- "Pilot", a song by The Notwist from the 2002 album Neon Golden
- "Pilots" (song), a 2002 song by the band Goldfrapp
- "The Pilot" (Double Experience song), 2017
- "The Pilot", a 1976 song by England Dan & John Ford Coley from I Hear Music
Pilot
Periodicals
- Pilot (UK magazine), a UK-based general aviation magazine
- The Pilot (Dublin newspaper), 1830s–1840s Dublin-based Repeal Association newspaper owned and edited by Richard Barrett
- The Pilot (Massachusetts newspaper), the official newspaper of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston
- The Virginian-Pilot, the daily newspaper of Norfolk, Virginia and the surrounding Hampton Roads metro area
- The Pilot (North Carolina newspaper), a semiweekly newspaper published in Moore County, North Carolina
Television
- "Pilot" (television episode), list of television pilots named "Pilot"
- "The Pilot" (Doctor Who), an episode of the tenth series of Doctor Who
- "The Pilot" (Seinfeld), the two-part season finale of Seinfeld's fourth season
Organizations
- Pilot (educational organization), a national high school hackathon network
- Pilot (pen company), a Japanese pen manufacturer
- Pilot (studio), a Russian animation studio
- Pilot Flying J, a company that operates truck stops in the United States and Canada
Science and technology
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
Other uses in 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
Sports
- Portland Pilots, an NCAA Division I athletics program representing the University of Portland
- Seattle Pilots, a 1969 baseball team that became the Milwaukee Brewers
Transport
Motor vehicles
- Pilot (automobile), three models of automobile produced in the early 1900s
- Ford Pilot, a European Ford sold during the late 1940s
- Honda Pilot, a large crossover SUV sold by Honda
Ships
- Pilot (1813 ship), a convict transport to New South Wales
- Pilot (boat), a pilot boat and museum ship in San Diego, California
- Pilot (icebreaker), the first icebreaker ship, built in 1864
- HMS Pilot, one of four ships of the British Royal Navy
Trains
- Pilot (locomotive), a device that deflects obstacles from the front of a locomotive, also known as a cowcatcher
- Pilotman, a railway worker who ensures that only one train enters a single track rail segment at a time
- Station pilot, a locomotive used for shunting passenger coaches and vans
Other uses
- PILOT (finance), in public finance, a payment in lieu of taxes