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 * '' The Pilot. A Battle for Survival'', a 2021 Russian film

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 ''The Pilot News'' is a six-day-a-week daily newspaper serving Plymouth, Indiana, United States, and the surrounding area, with a circulation of 4,435. Covering local news and sports both online and in print, it delivers Monday through Saturday t ...

'', 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 Eaton Stannard Barrett (1786 – 20 March 1820) was an Irish poet and author of political satires. He also wrote a comic novel: ''The Heroine, or: Adventures of a Fair Romance Reader'' (1813). Career Born in County Cork, son of Richard Barre ...

's brother Richard * ''The Pilot,'' a 1976 novel by

Robert P. Davis Robert P. Davis (October 8, 1929 – November 7, 2005) was an American author, screenwriter, and film director whose works are primarily centered on aviation. His 1960 short film, '' Day of the Painter'', won an Academy Award in 1961 for B ...

* '' 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 ''The Original Human Being'' is Blue Cheer's fifth album. It was released in 1970 and shows Blue Cheer exploring a more psychedelic and laid‑back rock and roll with horn sections on a few of the songs. This album features a very unusual, and ...

'' * "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) Pilot is a Russian animation studio based in Moscow. It was founded in 1988 by Alexander Tatarsky, Igor Kovalyov, Anatoly Prokhorov, and Igor Gelashvili, becoming the first private animation studio in the Soviet Union. They aimed at both auteur an ...

, a Russian animation studio * Pilot Flying J, a North American chain of truck stops * Pilot Software, an American business intelligence vendor

People

Pilot (surname) Pilot is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * (b. 1962), Cameroon-French radio host for Radio France Internationale * (b. 1974), French television executive, founder of Nolife (TV channel) * Ann Hobson Pilot, American classical ...

, including a list of people with the name *

Pilot Baba Pilot Baba is a revered Indian spiritual guru who had been Wing Commander Kapil Singh, a pilot in the Indian Air Force. Early life and career Kapil Singh claims to have been commissioned in the Indian Air Force as a fighter pilot in 1957. He ...

(born 1938), an Indian spiritual guru and former fighter pilot

Places

Pilot, Davidson County, North Carolina Pilot is a populated place in Davidson County, North Carolina, United States. Geography Pilot is located at latitude 35.8801370 and longitude -80.1294899. The elevation is 791 feet. References Unincorporated communities in Davidson Co ...

, 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 Aviator Glacier is a major valley glacier in Antarctica that is over long and wide, descending generally southward from the plateau of Victoria Land along the west side of Mountaineer Range, and entering Lady Newnes Bay between Cape Sibbald a ...

, Victoria Land, Antarctica * Pilot Island, in Lake Michigan, Wisconsin, U.S. *

Pilot Mountain (disambiguation) Pilot Mountain may refer to: * Pilot Mountain (Alberta), a mountain in the Canadian province of Alberta * Pilot Mountain (British Columbia), a mountain in the Canadian province of British Columbia * Pilot Mountain (North Carolina), a mountain in th ...

* Pilot Township (disambiguation)

Science and technology

* PILOT, a high-level programming language developed in the 1960s *

Pilot (operating system) Pilot is 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. Overview Pilot was designed as a single user system in a highl ...

, designed by Xerox PARC in the 1970s

Sports

* Portland Pilots, the nickname for athletics at the University of Portland, U.S. *

Seattle Pilots The Seattle Pilots were an American professional baseball, professional baseball team based in Seattle, Washington (state), Washington during the 1969 Major League Baseball season. During their single-season existence, the Pilots played their ho ...

, 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 * , 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 switcher, shunter, yard pilot, switch engine, yard goat, or shifter is a small railroad locomotive used for manoeuvring railroad cars inside a rail yard in a process known as ''switching'' (US) or ''shunting'' (UK). Switchers are not inten ...

, a shunting engine based at a major passenger station

Other uses

PILOT (finance) A payment in lieu of taxes (usually abbreviated as PILOT, or sometimes as PILT) is a payment made to compensate a government for some or all of the property tax revenue lost due to tax exempt ownership or use of real property. Canada The federal g ...

, in public finance, a payment in lieu of taxes