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An aircraft pilot or aviator is a person who controls the flight of an aircraft by operating its directional flight controls. Some other aircrew members, such as navigators or flight engineers, are also considered aviators, because they a ...
is a person who flies or navigates an aircraft.
Pilot or The Pilot may also refer to:
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Maritime pilot
A maritime pilot, marine pilot, harbor pilot, port pilot, ship pilot, or simply pilot, is a mariner who maneuvers ships through dangerous or congested waters, such as harbors or river mouths. Maritime pilots are regarded as skilled profession ...
, a person who guides ships through hazardous waters
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Television pilot
A television pilot (also known as a pilot or a pilot episode and sometimes marketed as a tele-movie), in United States television, is a standalone episode of a television series that is used to sell a show to a television network or other distr ...
, a television episode used to sell a series to a television network
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Pilot experiment
A pilot study, pilot project, pilot test, or pilot experiment is a small-scale preliminary study conducted to evaluate feasibility, duration, cost, adverse events, and improve upon the study design prior to performance of a full-scale research pr ...
, a small-scale preliminary study conducted prior to a full-scale research project
Arts and entertainment
Fictional characters
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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
''Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future'' is a science fiction-action television series, merging live action with animation based on computer-generated images, that ran for 22 episodes in Canadian and American syndication. A toy line was ...
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Film and television
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''Pilots'' (film), a 2000 Malayalam film
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''The Pilot'' (film), a 1980 film
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"The Pilot" (''Doctor Who''), an episode of the 10th series
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"The Pilot" (''Seinfeld''), the finale of the 4th season
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The Pilot. A Battle for Survival'', a 2021 Russian film
Literature
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"Pilot" (short story), by Stephen Baxter, 1993
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''Pilot'' (British magazine), a general aviation magazine
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''The Pilot'' (Massachusetts newspaper), the official newspaper of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston, U.S.
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''The Pilot'' (North Carolina newspaper), a semiweekly newspaper
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The Pilot News'', a newspaper serving Plymouth, Indiana, U.S.
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The Virginian-Pilot
''The Virginian-Pilot'' is the daily newspaper for Norfolk, Virginia. Commonly known as ''The Pilot'', it is Virginia's largest daily. It serves the five cities of South Hampton Roads as well as several smaller towns across southeast Virgini ...
'', the daily newspaper of Norfolk, Virginia, U.S.
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''The Pilot'' (Dublin newspaper), published 1830s–1840s by
Eaton Stannard Barrett's brother Richard
* ''The Pilot,'' a 1976 novel by
Robert P. Davis
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The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea'', an 1824 novel by James Fenimore Cooper
Music
Bands
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Pilot (band)
Pilot were a Scottish rock group, formed in 1973 in Edinburgh by David Paton and Billy Lyall. They are best known for their songs "January", " Magic", "Just a Smile" and "Call Me Round".
Career
Paton and Lyall had briefly been substitute ...
, a Scottish rock group
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Pilot (Russian band)
Pilot, also known as PilOt (russian: Пилот, ПилОт) is a Russian rock band from Saint Petersburg, founded by Ilja Knabengof in 1997.
History
The roots of the band stretch back to 1994, at which point it was called Military Jane. In t ...
, a Russian rock band
EPs
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''Pilot'' (Mallory Knox EP), 2011
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''Pilot'' (Reuben EP), 2001
* ''Pilot'', a 2014 EP by
Amber Run
Amber Run is a British indie rock band from Nottingham, UK composed of Joshua "Joe" Keogh, Tom Sperring, and Henry Wyeth. The band have released three full-length albums. three mini-albums and five EPs. Initially called Amber, they later changed ...
Songs
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"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
''Neon Golden'' is the fifth studio album by German indie rock band The Notwist. It was released on 14 January 2002 by City Slang.
Composition
''Neon Golden'' is rooted in the experimental musical style that The Notwist had moved towards on t ...
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"Pilots" (song), by Goldfrapp, 2001
* "The Pilot", a 1976 song by England Dan & John Ford Coley from ''
I Hear Music "I Hear Music" is a popular song composed by Burton Lane, with lyrics by Frank Loesser for the Paramount Pictures movie ''Dancing on a Dime'' (1940). In the film it was performed by Robert Paige, Peter Lind Hayes, Frank Jenks and Eddie Quillan.
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"The Pilot" (Double Experience song), 2017
Businesses and organizations
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Pilot (educational organization), teaching practical skills in computer science and entrepreneurship
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Pilot (pen company)
is a Japanese pen manufacturer based in Tokyo, Japan. It produces writing instruments, stationery and jewelry, but is best known for its pens.
It is the largest pen manufacturer in Japan, with competition globally from other pen companies like ...
, a Japanese pen manufacturer
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Pilot (studio), a Russian animation studio
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Pilot Flying J
Pilot Travel Centers LLC, doing business as Pilot Flying J, is a North American chain of truck stops in the United States and Canada. The company is based in Knoxville, Tennessee, where Pilot Corporation, the majority owner, is based. The compan ...
, a North American chain of truck stops
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Pilot Software
Pilot Software, Inc. is a long-time United States business intelligence vendor that now focuses on operational performance management.
SAP AG acquired Pilot Software in February 2007 and Pilot Software's product, PilotWorks, has been rebranded SAP ...
, an American business intelligence vendor
People
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Pilot (surname), including a list of people with the name
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Pilot Baba (born 1938), an Indian spiritual guru and former fighter pilot
Places
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Pilot, Davidson County, North Carolina, U.S.
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Pilot, Franklin County, North Carolina, U.S.
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Pilot, Virginia, U.S.
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Pilot (župa), a county of Serbia in the Middle Ages
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Pilot Glacier, Victoria Land, Antarctica
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Pilot Island
Pilot Island is an island in Lake Michigan in the Town of Washington, in Door County, Wisconsin; it is part of Green Bay National Wildlife Refuge
Green Bay National Wildlife Refuge is a National Wildlife Refuge of the United States located in ...
, in Lake Michigan, Wisconsin, U.S.
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Pilot Mountain (disambiguation)
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Pilot Township (disambiguation)
Science and technology
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PILOT
An aircraft pilot or aviator is a person who controls the flight of an aircraft by operating its directional flight controls. Some other aircrew members, such as navigators or flight engineers, are also considered aviators, because they a ...
, a high-level programming language developed in the 1960s
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Pilot (operating system), designed by Xerox PARC in the 1970s
Sports
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Portland Pilots
The Portland Pilots is the nickname for athletics at the University of Portland. The Pilots compete in the West Coast Conference (WCC) at the NCAA Division I level.
History
The Pilots started to gain attention when Clive Charles began coachi ...
, the nickname for athletics at the University of Portland, U.S.
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Seattle Pilots, a 1969 American baseball team that became the Milwaukee Brewers
Transportation
Automobiles
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Pilot (automobile) There were three automobiles called Pilot in the brass car and vintage car eras. An American Pilot was built from 1909 to 1924 in Richmond, Indiana. A British Pilot was built from 1909 to 1914 in London, England and a German Pilot built from 1 ...
, the name of three different automobiles of the early 1900s
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Ford Pilot
The Ford Pilot Model E71A is a medium-sized car that was built by Ford UK from August 1947 to 1951. It was effectively replaced in 1951 with the launch of Ford UK's Zephyr Six and Consul models, though V8 Pilots were still offered for sale, bei ...
, a 1947–1951 American-British mid-size car
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Honda Pilot
The Honda Pilot is a mid-size crossover SUV with three-row seating manufactured by Honda since 2002. Primarily aimed at the North American market, the Pilot is the largest SUV produced by Honda. Pilots are currently manufactured in Lincoln, Al ...
, a 2003–present Japanese-American mid-size SUV
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LDV Pilot
The LDV Pilot is a panel van that was produced by LDV Limited from 1996 until 2005, and closely based on preceding models dating back to the 1974 Leyland Sherpa (which were in turn related to older models).
The Pilot was available in capacities ...
, a 1997–2006 British panel van
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MG Pilot, a 2020–present British-Chinese compact SUV
Ships
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''Pilot'' (1813 ship), a convict transport to Australia
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''Pilot'' (boat), a pilot boat and museum ship in San Diego, California, U.S.
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''Pilot'' (icebreaker), the Russian icebreaker ship, converted in 1864
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Trains
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Pilot (locomotive)
A cowcatcher, also known as a pilot, is the device mounted at the front of a locomotive to deflect obstacles on the track that might otherwise damage or derail it or the train.
In the UK small metal bars called ''life-guards'', ''rail guard ...
, or cowcatcher, a device mounted at the front of a locomotive to deflect obstacles
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Station pilot, a shunting engine based at a major passenger station
Other uses
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PILOT (finance), in public finance, a payment in lieu of taxes
See also
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Aviator (disambiguation)
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Driver (disambiguation)
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La Piloto
''La Piloto'' is a Spanish-language crime drama television series created by W Studios and produced by Lemon Films Studios for Univision and Televisa. It's an original story based on real-life events and it started airing on American broadcast cha ...
'', a 2017-2018 Spanish-language crime drama television series
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Pilate (disambiguation)
Pilate most commonly refers to Pontius Pilate
Pilate may also refer to:
*Pilate (band), now called Pilot Speed, a Canadian rock band formed in 1999 in Toronto, Ontario
* "Pilate" (song), a song by Pearl Jam from their fifth album, ''Yield'', rele ...
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Piloting (navigation) or pilotage, the act of navigating by visual landmarks over water or in the air
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Pilot fish
The pilot fish (''Naucrates ductor'') is a carnivorous fish of the trevally, or jackfish family, Carangidae. It is widely distributed and lives in warm or tropical open seas.
Description
The pilot fish congregates around sharks, rays, and se ...
(''Naucrates ductor''), a small fish
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Pilot job
In computer science, a pilot job is a type of multilevel scheduling, in which a resource is acquired by an application so that the application can schedule work into that resource directly, rather than going through a local job scheduler, which mig ...
, a type of multilevel scheduling
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Pilot light
Merker Tankless water heating, tankless gas-fired water heater from the 1930s, with pilot light clearly visible through the aperture in the front cover. The large opening allowed for the manual lighting of the pilot light by a lit match or taper
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, a flame kept continually burning and used to light burners on household appliances
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Pilot plant
A pilot plant is a pre-commercial production system that employs new production technology and/or produces small volumes of new technology-based products, mainly for the purpose of learning about the new technology. The knowledge obtained is then ...
, a pre-commercial production system used to evaluate new technologies and designs
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Pilot signal
In telecommunications, a pilot signal is a signal, usually a single frequency, transmitted over a communications system for supervisory, control, equalization, continuity, synchronization, or reference purposes.
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, or pilot tone, in telecommunications
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Pilot whale
Pilot whales are cetaceans belonging to the genus ''Globicephala''. The two extant species are the long-finned pilot whale (''G. melas'') and the short-finned pilot whale (''G. macrorhynchus''). The two are not readily distinguishable at sea, ...
, a whale-like dolphin
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Pilotman, a railway worker who ensures that only one train enters a single track rail segment at a time
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