Pilot

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Pilot can refer to:

Occupations

• Aviator, in aviation, an Aircraft pilot is someone who controls an aircraft
• Maritime 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, the name for the second generation of personal digital assistants sold by Palm Computing; the first generation was simply the "Pilot", though "PalmPilot" is often used as slang for PalmOS devices despite the fact that Palm no longer uses the trademark on its current products.
• 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.
• In Shogun (novel), the protagonist, John Blackthorne, is named Anjin-san by his Japanese hosts. Angin means "pilot"; san is the standard honorific for a person of modest rank.
• Pilot Magazine UK, a UK based General Aviation magazine.

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, and sometimes has different cast or other differences to the actual series. There are also countless series whose pilot episodes are titled "Pilot".
• Film pilot: a trial segment used to attract further financing for a film. For example, in countries where the government will fund only a certain portion of a film's funds, those funds are often used to film a pilot which will then be shown in hopes of attracting further investment. The film pilot may be a self-contained short film in its own right, and may also be shown to the public (see: Gofmaniada)
• The Pilot, Part 1 and The Pilot, Part 2, the two episodes compromising Seinfeld's Season 4 finale.
• Pilot, the first episode of the television series House

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.
• Agkistrodon piscivorus, a.k.a. the cottonmouth; a venomous snake found in North America.
• Agkistrodon contortrix mokasen, a.k.a. the northern copperhead, another venomous snake found in North America.
• Heterodon platirhinos, a non-venomous colubrid found in North America.

Computer Science

• Pilot (operating system), operating system designed by Xerox PARC in 1970s

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 of a locomotive to deflect obstacles (also known as a cowcatcher)
• Station pilot, a locomotive based at a major railway station for the purposes of shunting passenger coaches and vans
• Pilot (icebreaker), the first icebreaker, built in 1864.

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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