Pilot

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Pilot may refer to:

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

In 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

In transportation

• Pilot, an aviator, a person who flies an aircraft
• Maritime pilot, a mariner who guides ships through hazardous waters
• An officer of the deck department of a merchant ship
• 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

Ships

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

In entertainment

In 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 novel by James Fenimore Cooper
• The Virginian-Pilot, a newspaper in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia
• Dropping the Pilot, a political cartoon
• The Pilot (newspaper), the official newspaper of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston

In film and television

• The Pilot (film), a 1980 film
• Pilot No. 5, a 1947 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
• Space Jockey (Alien), also known as "the pilot", a creature in the Alien films

In 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

In sports

• Milwaukee Brewers, founded in 1969 as the Seattle Pilots
• Pilot, the front person in tandem cycling
  • In Paralympic cycling, the Pilot is a sighted guide

In commerce

• Pilot (operating system), designed by Xerox PARC in the 1970s
• PILOT, a computer programming language
• Honda Pilot, a large crossover, and Honda's second SUV fully built and designed by Honda
• Pilot (pen company)
• 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

• Pilate (disambiguation)
• Driver (disambiguation)
• List of television pilots named "Pilot"

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