Pilot (disambiguation)

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 TV 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 (navigation) 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
• Ford Pilot, a European Ford sold during the late 1940s
• Honda Pilot, a large crossover SUV sold by Honda

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
• Pilot (1813 ship), a convict transport to New South Wales

Culture

• "Pilot" (short story), by Stephen Baxter
• Pilot (Farscape), a character in the science fiction television series Farscape

Periodicals

• The Pilot (newspaper), the official newspaper of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston
• The Pilot (newspaper), 1830s-1840s Dublin-based Repeal Association newspaper owned and edited by Richard Barrett
• The Pilot (Canadian newspaper), a newspaper
• Pilot (UK magazine), a UK-based general aviation magazine
• The Virginian-Pilot, the daily newspaper of Norfolk, Virginia and the surrounding Hampton Roads metro area

Novels

• The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea, an 1824 novel by James Fenimore Cooper
• The Pilot, a novel by Robert P. Davis

Film

• Pilot No. 5, a 1943 film
• The Pilot (film), a 1980 film adapted from the Davis novel
• Pilots (film), a 2000 Malayalam film

Television production, (United States)

• Television pilot, a television episode used to sell a series to a television network

Television titles and episodes

• "Pilot" (television episode), list of television pilots named "Pilot"
• "The Pilot" (Seinfeld), the two-part season finale of Seinfeld's fourth season
• "The Pilot" (Doctor Who), an episode of the tenth series of Doctor Who

Music

Bands

• 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
• "Pilot", a 1970 song by the band Blue Cheer from The Original Human Being
• "The Pilot", a 1976 song by England Dan & John Ford Coley from I Hear the Music
• "Pilot", a 2014 song by the British band Amber Run

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

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

People

• Pilot (surname)
• Pilot Baba (born 1938), Indian spiritual guru, fighter pilot with the Indian Air Force

Places

• Pilot, Davidson County, North Carolina
• Pilot, Franklin County, North Carolina
• Pilot, Virginia, an unincorporated place in the United States
• Pilot (župa), a county of Serbia in the Middle Ages
• 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

See also

• PILOT (finance), in public finance, a payment in lieu of taxes
• Aviator (disambiguation)
• Driver (disambiguation)
• Pilate (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles beginning with The Pilot
• All pages with titles containing The Pilot
• All pages with titles beginning with Pilot (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles containing Pilot (disambiguation)