Pilot (disambiguation)

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A pilot is a person who flies or navigates an aircraft.

Pilot or The Pilot may also refer to:

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Common meanings

  • 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, entertainment and media

=Fictional characters=

=Film and television=

{{see also|List of television episodes titled Pilot}}

=Literature=

=Publications=

=Music=

==Bands==

==EPs==

==Songs==

==Businesses==

People

  • Pilot (surname), including a list of people with the name
  • Pilot Baba, nickname of Kapil Singh (1938–2024), Indian spiritual guru and former fighter pilot

Places

Science and technology

  • PILOT, a high-level programming language developed in the 1960s
  • Pilot (operating system), designed by Xerox PARC in the 1970s
  • PalmPilot, a personal digital assistant produced by Palm, Inc.

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=

  • 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
  • Rover Pilot, a British car produced 1932–33

==Automotive marques==

=Ships and boats=

{{See also|pilot boat}}

=Trains=

  • Pilot (locomotive attachment), or cowcatcher, a device mounted at the front of a locomotive to deflect obstacles
  • Pilot locomotive for double heading, an additional engine for additional traction, motive power, etc
  • Station pilot, a shunting engine based at a major passenger station

Other uses

  • {{HMS|Pilot}}, several Royal Navy ships
  • PILOT (finance), in public finance, a payment in lieu of taxes

See also

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  • Piloting 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
  • La Piloto, a 2017-2018 Spanish-language crime drama television series
  • Pilate (disambiguation)

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