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:
- 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[]
- Pilots (film), a 2000 Malayalam film
- The Pilot (film), a 1980 film
- "The Pilot" (Doctor Who), an episode of the 10th series
- "The Pilot" (Seinfeld), the finale of the 4th season
Literature[]
- "Pilot" (short story), by Stephen Baxter, 1993
- 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.
- , published 1830s–1840s by Eaton Stannard Barrett's brother Richard
- The Pilot, a 1976 novel by Robert P. Davis
- The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea, an 1824 novel by James Fenimore Cooper
Music[]
Bands[]
- Pilot (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" (50 Cent song), 2014
- "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
- "Pilots" (song), by Goldfrapp, 2001
- "The Pilot", a 1976 song by England Dan & John Ford Coley from I Hear Music
- "The Pilot" (Double Experience song), 2017
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 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
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[]
- Pilot (automobile), the name of three different automobiles of the early 1900s
- 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
Ships[]
- Pilot (1813 ship), a convict transport to Australia
- Pilot (boat), a pilot boat and museum ship in San Diego, California, U.S.
- Pilot (icebreaker), the Russian icebreaker ship, converted in 1864
- HMS Pilot, the name of several Royal Navy ships
Trains[]
- Pilot (locomotive), or cowcatcher, a device mounted at the front of a locomotive to deflect obstacles
- 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[]
- All pages with titles beginning with Pilot
- All pages with titles beginning with Pilots
- All pages with titles beginning with The Pilot
- All pages with titles containing Pilot
- Aviator (disambiguation)
- Driver (disambiguation)
- La Piloto, a 2017-2018 Spanish-language crime drama television series
- Pilate (disambiguation)
- Piloting (navigation) 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
Categories:
- Disambiguation pages
- Place name disambiguation pages
- Ship disambiguation pages
- Disambiguation pages with given-name-holder lists