Pilot

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Pilot may 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
• Agkistrodon piscivorus, or cottonmouth, a venomous pit viper
• Agkistrodon contortrix mokasen, or northern copperhead, a venomous pit viper
• Heterodon platirhinos, or eastern hog-nosed snake, a non-venomous colubrid

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

Transportation

• Aviator, a person who flies an aircraft
• Maritime pilot, a mariner who guides ships through hazardous waters
• Sailing Directions, planning guides describing general features of ocean basins and country-specific information for navigators
• Pilot (locomotive), or cowcatcher, a device at the front of locomotives to deflect obstacles
• Station pilot, a locomotive used for shunting passenger coaches and vans
• Pilotman, member of a railroad company's staff who travels on every train, and whose duties are to ensure that no more than one train is present in any given section of railroad tracks
• Coast Pilots, American navigation publication distributed yearly by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Office of Coast Survey

Ships

• HMS Pilot, one of four ships of the British Royal Navy
• Pilot (icebreaker), the first icebreaker ship, built in 1864

Entertainment

Print

• "Pilot" (short story), by Stephen Baxter
• The Pilot (Lewisporte, Newfoundland and Labrador), a newspaper
• Pilot (UK magazine), a UK-based general aviation magazine
• The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea, a 1824 novel by James Fenimore Cooper
• The Virginian-Pilot, the daily newspaper of Norfolk, Virginia and the surrounding Hampton Roads metro area
• Dropping the Pilot, a political cartoon
• The Pilot (newspaper), the official newspaper of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston

Film and television

• The Pilot (film), a 1980 film
• Pilot #5, a 1943 film
• Pilot (Farscape), a character in the science fiction television series Farscape
• Television pilot, a trial episode made to sell a television series
  • Pilot (television episode), a disambiguation of television pilots named "Pilot"
• The Pilot (Seinfeld), two episodes comprising Seinfeld's Season 4 finale
• Pilot Guides, a travel documentary and guide television series

Music

• Pilot (band), a pop rock group best known for their 1975 hit songs "Magic" and "January"
• "Pilots" (song), a song by the band Goldfrapp

Sports

• Portland Pilots, an NCAA Division I athletics program representing the University of Portland
• Milwaukee Brewers, founded in 1969 as the Seattle Pilots

Commerce

• Honda Pilot, a large crossover, and Honda's second SUV fully built and designed by Honda
• Pilot (pen company), a Japanese pen manufacturer based in Tokyo, Japan
• PILOT (finance), in public finance, a payment in lieu of taxes
• Pilot Travel Centers, an operator of truck stops in the United States and Canada
• Corporate Contract Pilot, a pilot that flies private business aircraft on a contract basis

See also

• Pilotage, navigation using fixed visual references on the ground
• Pilate (disambiguation)
• Driver (disambiguation)
• All pages beginning with "The Pilot"
• All pages beginning with "Pilot"
• All pages with titles containing "Pilot"

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