Pilot

Pilot may refer to:

In science and technology

• Pilot experiment, a precursor to a full experiment
• Pilot light A pilot light is a small gas flame, usually natural gas or liquefied petroleum gas, which is kept alight in order to serve as an ignition source for a more powerful gas burner, 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 The pilot whale is either of two species of cetacean in the genus Globicephala. The genus is part of the oceanic dolphin family although their behavior is closer to that of the larger whales. The two species are the Long-finned Pilot Whale and the Short-finned Pilot Whale. The two are not readily distinguished at sea. They and other large members, a whale-like dolphin
• Agkistrodon piscivorus Agkistrodon piscivorus is a venomous snake, a species of pit viper, found in the eastern United States. Adults are large and capable of delivering a painful and potentially fatal bite, but are not normally aggressive. This is the world's only semi-aquatic viper, usually found in or near water, particularly in slow-moving and shallow lakes and, 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 An aviator is a person who flies or travels via aircraft for pleasure or as a profession. The first recorded use of the term was in 1887 as a variation of 'aviation', from the Latin 'avis' (meaning bird), coined 1863 by G. de la Landelle in "Aviation ou Navigation Aérienne" ('Aviation or Air Navigation'. The term aviatrix (aviatrice in, a person who flies an aircraft
• Maritime pilot, a mariner who guides ships through hazardous waters
• An officer of the deck department The Deck Department is an organizational unit aboard naval and merchant ships. A Deck Officer is an officer serving in 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) In railroading, the pilot is the device mounted at the front of a locomotive to deflect obstacles from the track that might otherwise derail the train. In some countries it is also called cowcatcher. The term "pilot", and the item itself, derive from North American usage, or cowcatcher, a device at the front of locomotives to deflect obstacles
• Station pilot A switcher or shunter (Great Britain: shunter; Australia: shunter or yard pilot; USA: switcher , except Pennsylvania Railroad: shifter) is a small railroad locomotive intended not for moving trains over long distances but rather for assembling trains ready for a road locomotive to take over, disassembling a train that has been brought in, and, 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 The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea is a historical novel by James Fenimore Cooper, first published in 1824. Its subject is the life of a naval pilot during the Revolution of 1775-1783, a novel by James Fenimore Cooper
• The Virginian-Pilot The Virginian-Pilot is a daily newspaper based in Norfolk, Virginia and serving the Hampton Roads metropolitan area, i.e., southeastern Virginia, the Eastern Shore of Virginia, and northeastern North Carolina. Owned by Landmark Media Enterprises, The Pilot is Virginia's largest daily metro paper.[citation needed], a newspaper in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia
• Dropping the Pilot Dropping the Pilot is a political cartoon by Sir John Tenniel, first published in the British magazine Punch, March 1890. It depicts Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, as a Maritime pilot, stepping off a ship , watched by the German Emperor Wilhelm II, 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 television pilot or pilot episode is the first episode of a television series. At the time of its inception, the pilot is meant to be the 'testing ground' to see if a series will be possible and successful and therefore a test episode of an intended television series. It is an early step in the development of a television series, much like 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 The Milwaukee Brewers are a professional baseball team, based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and currently playing in the Central Division of Major League Baseball's National League. The team is named for the city's association with the brewing industry and plays its home games at Miller Park, 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) Pilot was a single-user, multitasking operating system designed by Xerox PARC in early 1977. Pilot was written in the Mesa programming language, totalling about 24,000 lines of code, designed by Xerox PARC in the 1970s
• PILOT, a computer programming language
• Honda Pilot The Honda Pilot is a mid-size SUV and is Honda's second SUV fully built and designed by Honda, released in the summer of 2002 for the 2003 model year to replace the body-on-frame Passport, which was a rebadged Isuzu Rodeo, which was sold only in the United States, although the Passport was Honda's first SUV sold from 1994-2002. The Honda Pilot is, a large crossover, and Honda's second SUV fully built and designed by Honda
• Pilot (pen company)
• PILOT (finance) A PILOT is a payment in lieu of taxes , made to compensate a local government for some or all of the tax revenue that it loses because of the nature of the ownership or use of a particular piece of real property. Usually it relates to the foregone property tax revenue, in public finance, a payment in lieu of taxes
• Pilot Travel Centers Pilot Flying J is a chain of truck stops in the United States. The company is based in Knoxville, Tennessee where Pilot Corporation, the majority owner, is based. The company is owned by Pilot, Flying J, and CVC Capital Partners. The company operates truck stops under the Pilot Travel Centers and Flying J brands, 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"

See Also:

• Pilot: Dictionary
• Aircraft Pilot: Encyclopedia

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