PILOT

'Pilot' can refer to:
;Occupations

★ Aviator, in aviation, an ''Aircraft pilot'' is someone who controls an aircraft

★ Harbour pilot, in shipping, someone who guides ships through the waters near a harbour or dangerous coastal waters

★ Pilot engineer, a locomotive engineer with special familiarity of a particular section of track.
;Products and companies

★ Ford Pilot, a car

★ Honda Pilot, a Crossover SUV made by the Honda corporation.

★ LDV Pilot, a mid-sized British van

★ Palm Pilot, the name for the second generation of personal digital assistants sold by Palm Computing; the first generation was simply the "Pilot", though "PalmPilot" is often used as slang for PalmOS devices despite the fact that Palm no longer uses trademark on its current products.

★ Pilot Travel Centers, LLC, primarily sells over-the-road diesel fuel

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★ Pilot Corporation is 50% owner of Pilot Travel Centers, LLC

★ Pilot Pen Corporation, headquarters situated in Japan; one of the world's major manufacturers of pens
;In print

★ "Pilot" (short story) by Stephen Baxter

★ , a historical fiction novel by James Fenimore Cooper

★ Ken Ogger, Scientology writer, pen name The Pilot

★ The Virginian-Pilot, newspaper serving the Hampton Roads part of Virginia.
;Film and television

★ ''Pilot #5'', a 1947 film

★ Pilot (Farscape), a character in the science fiction television series ''Farscape''.

★ Television pilot, often called just a pilot, is a trial episode made to sell a television series. It may be broadcast as the first episode if the series is sold to a network or cable channel, and sometimes has different cast or other differences to the actual series. There are also countless series whose pilot episodes are titled "Pilot".

★ Film pilot: a trial segment used to attract further financing for a film. For example, in countries where the government will fund only a certain portion of a film's funds, those funds are often used to film a pilot which will then be shown in hopes of attracting further investment. The film pilot may be a self-contained short film in its own right, and may also be shown to the public (see: ''Gofmaniada'')

★ ''The Pilot, Part 1'' and ''The Pilot, Part 2'', the two episodes compromising Seinfeld's Season 4 finale.
;Music

★ Pilot (band), a pop rock group best known for their 1975 hit songs "Magic" and "January"
;Biology

★ Pilot fish, (''Naucrates ductor''), a small fish that often swims with sharks

★ Pilot whale, a whale-like dolphin.
;Computer Science

★ Pilot (operating system), operating system designed by Xerox PARC in 1970s
;Other

★ Pilot (experiment), a precursor to a full study

★ Pilot light, a small outlet of gas kept continually burning and generally used to light the larger burners on the appliance

★ Pilot signal, or pilot tone, in telecommunications, provided as a frequency or phase reference

★ Pilot (locomotive), the device at the front of a locomotive to deflect obstacles (also known as a ''cowcatcher'')

★ Station pilot, a locomotive based at a major railway station for the purposes of shunting passenger coaches and vans

★ Pilot (icebreaker), the first icebreaker, built in 1864.
'PILOT' can also be an acronym:

★ PILOT programming language, in computer science

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

★ ''Agkistrodon piscivorus'', a.k.a. the cottonmouth; a venomous snake found in North America.

★ ''Agkistrodon contortrix mokasen'', a.k.a. the northern copperhead, another venomous snake found in North America.

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See also

★ Pilate, a common misspelling.