Pilot (disambiguation)

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A pilot is a person who flies or navigates an aircraft, ship or U.F.O.

Pilot or The Pilot may also refer to:

• Maritime pilot, a person who guides ships through hazardous waters
• 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

Arts and entertainment

Fictional characters

• Pilot (Farscape), a member of a race known as Pilots
• Jennifer "Pilot" Chase, a character in the Canadian-American science fiction-action television series Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future

Film and television

• Pilots (film), a 2000 Malayalam film
• The Pilot (film), a 1980 film
• "The Pilot" (Doctor Who), the first episode of the 10th series
• "The Pilot" (Seinfeld), the finale of the 4th season
• The Pilot. A Battle for Survival, a 2021 Russian film

Literature

• "Pilot" (short story), a 1993 short story by Stephen Baxter
• Pilot (British magazine), a general aviation magazine
• The Pilot (Massachusetts newspaper), the official newspaper of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston, U.S.
• The Pilot (North Carolina newspaper), a semiweekly newspaper
• The Pilot News, a newspaper serving Plymouth, Indiana, U.S.
• The Virginian-Pilot, the daily newspaper of Norfolk, Virginia, U.S.
• <i>The Pilot</i> (Dublin newspaper), published 1830s–1840s by Eaton Stannard Barrett's brother Richard
• The Pilot, a 1976 novel by Robert P. Davis
• The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea, an 1824 novel by James Fenimore Cooper

Music

Bands

• Pilot (Scottish band), a Scottish rock group
• Pilot (Russian band), a Russian rock band

EPs

• Pilot (Mallory Knox EP), 2011
• Pilot (Reuben EP), 2001
• Pilot, a 2014 EP by Amber Run

Songs

• "Pilot" (50 Cent song), 2014
• "Pilot", a song by Blue Cheer from the 1970 album The Original Human Being
• "Pilot", a song by the Notwist from the 2002 album Neon Golden
• "Pilots" (song), a 2001 song by Goldfrapp
• "The Pilot", a 1976 song by England Dan & John Ford Coley from I Hear Music
• "The Pilot" (Double Experience song), 2017

Businesses and organizations

• Pilot (educational organization), teaching practical skills in computer science and entrepreneurship
• Pilot (pen company), a Japanese pen manufacturer
• Pilot (studio), a Russian animation studio
• Pilot Flying J, a North American chain of truck stops
• Pilot Software, an American business intelligence vendor

People

• Pilot (surname), including a list of people with the name
• Pilot Baba (born 1938), an Indian spiritual guru and former fighter pilot

Places

• Pilot, Davidson County, North Carolina, U.S.
• Pilot, Franklin County, North Carolina, U.S.
• Pilot, Virginia, U.S.
• Pilot (župa), a county of Serbia in the Middle Ages
• Pilot Glacier, Victoria Land, Antarctica
• Pilot Island, in Lake Michigan, Wisconsin, U.S.
• Pilot Mountain (disambiguation)
• Pilot Township (disambiguation)

Science and technology

• PILOT, a high-level programming language developed in the 1960s
• Pilot (operating system), designed by Xerox PARC in the 1970s

Sports

• Portland Pilots, the nickname for athletics at the University of Portland, U.S.
• Seattle Pilots, a 1969 American baseball team that became the Milwaukee Brewers

Transportation

Automobiles

• Pilot (automobile), the name of three different automobiles of the early 1900s
• Ford Pilot, a 1947–1951 American-British mid-size car
• Honda Pilot, a 2003–present Japanese-American mid-size SUV
• LDV Pilot, a 1997–2006 British panel van
• MG Pilot, a 2020–present British-Chinese compact SUV

Ships

• Pilot (1813 ship), a convict transport to Australia
• Pilot (boat), a pilot boat and museum ship in San Diego, California, U.S.
• Pilot (icebreaker), the Russian icebreaker ship, converted in 1864
• HMS Pilot, the name of several Royal Navy ships

Trains

• Pilot (locomotive), or cowcatcher, a device mounted at the front of a locomotive to deflect obstacles
• Station pilot, a shunting engine based at a major passenger station

Other uses

• PILOT (finance), in public finance, a payment in lieu of taxes

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Pilot
• All pages with titles beginning with Pilots
• All pages with titles beginning with The Pilot
• All pages with titles containing Pilot
• Aviator (disambiguation)
• Driver (disambiguation)
• La Piloto, a 2017-2018 Spanish-language crime drama television series
• Pilate (disambiguation)
• Piloting (navigation) or pilotage, the act of navigating by visual landmarks over water or in the air
• Pilot fish (Naucrates ductor), a small fish
• Pilot job, a type of multilevel scheduling
• Pilot light, a flame kept continually burning and used to light burners on household appliances
• Pilot plant, a pre-commercial production system used to evaluate new technologies and designs
• Pilot signal, or pilot tone, in telecommunications
• Pilot whale, a whale-like dolphin
• Pilotman, a railway worker who ensures that only one train enters a single track rail segment at a time

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This page was last edited on 11 April 2024, at 19:31