Pilot
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Pilot can refer to:
- Occupations
- Aviator, in aviation, an Aircraft pilot is someone who controls an aircraft
- Harbour pilot, in shipping, someone who guides ships through the waters near a harbour or dangerous coastal waters
- Pilot engineer, a locomotive engineer with special familiarity of a particular section of track.
- Products and companies
- Ford Pilot, a car
- Honda Pilot, a Crossover SUV made by the Honda corporation.
- LDV Pilot, a mid-sized British van
- Palm Pilot, was the original model of the personal digital assistant
- Pilot Travel Centers, LLC, primarily sells over-the-road diesel fuel
- Pilot Corporation is 50% owner of Pilot Travel Centers, LLC
- Pilot Pen Corporation, headquarters situated in Japan, one of the world's major manufacturers of pens
- In print
- "Pilot" (short story) by Stephen Baxter
- The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea, a historical fiction novel by James Fenimore Cooper
- Ken Ogger, Scientology writer, pen name The Pilot
- The Virginian-Pilot, newspaper serving the Hampton Roads part of Virginia.
- Film and television
- Pilot #5, a 1947 film
- Pilot (Farscape), a character in the science fiction television series Farscape.
- Television pilot, often called just a pilot, is a trial episode made to sell a television series. It may be broadcast as the first episode if the series is sold to a network or cable channel. There are also countless series whose pilot episodes are titled "Pilot".
- Music
- Pilot (band), a pop rock group best known for their 1975 hit songs "Magic" and "January"
- Biology
- Pilot fish, (Naucrates ductor), a small fish that often swims with sharks
- Pilot whale, a whale-like dolphin.
- Other
- Pilot (experiment), a precursor to a full study
- Pilot light, a small outlet of gas kept continually burning and generally used to light the larger burners on the appliance
- Pilot signal, or pilot tone, in telecommunications, provided as a frequency or phase reference
- Pilot (locomotive), the device at the front to deflect obstacles (also known as a cowcatcher)
PILOT can also be an acronym:
- PILOT programming language, in computer science
- PILOT (finance), in public finance, a payment in lieu of taxes
[edit] See also
- Pilate, a common misspelling.
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