Pilot (disambiguation) explained

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

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

• Pilot (2024 film), a 2024 South Korean film
• 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 episode (Doctor Who), the first episode of the British science-fiction television series
• "The Pilot" (Seinfeld), the finale of the 4th season
• The Pilot. A Battle for Survival, a 2021 Russian film
• Television pilot, a trial episode of a show

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.
• The Pilot (Dublin newspaper), published 1830s–1840s by Eaton Stannard Barrett's brother Richard
• The Pilot, a 1976 novel by Robert P. Davis
• , 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" (song), by 50 Cent, 2014
• "Pilots" (song), a 2001 song by Goldfrapp
• "The Pilot" (song), by Double Experience, 2017
• "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
• "The Pilot", a 1976 song by England Dan & John Ford Coley from I Hear Music

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 Company, American petroleum company
• 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
• 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

• Piloting or pilotage, the act of navigating by visual landmarks over water or in the air

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, British car produced 1932–33

Automotive marques

• Pilot Motor Car Company, early 1900s American automobiles with the Pilot marque
• Pilot Cars Limited, early 1900s British automobiles with the Pilot marque
• Pilotmotorenwerke Bannewitz, early 1920s German automobiles with the Pilot marque

Ships and boats

See also: pilot boat.

• Pilot (1813 ship), a convict transport to Australia
• Pilot (1914 boat), a pilot boat and museum ship in San Diego, California, U.S.
• Pilot (1924 boat), a pilot boat in Boston
• Pilot (icebreaker), the Russian icebreaker ship, converted in 1864
• , the name of several Royal Navy ships

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

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

See also

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