A pilot is a person who flies or navigates an aircraft.

Pilot or The Pilot may also refer to:

Common meanings

  • 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, entertainment and media

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

  • Pilot (2024 film), a 2024 South Korean film
  • Pilots (film), a 2000 Malayalam film
  • The Pilot (film), a 1980 film
  • "The Pilot" (Doctor Who), the first episode of the 10th series
  • The Pilot episode (Doctor Who), the first episode of the British science-fiction television series<!--keep listed because Pilot (Doctor Who) redirects here as a former WP:INCDAB-->
  • "The Pilot" (Seinfeld), the finale of the 4th season
  • The Pilot. A Battle for Survival, a 2021 Russian film
  • Television pilot, a trial episode of a show

Literature

  • The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea, an 1824 novel by James Fenimore Cooper
  • "Pilot" (short story), a 1993 short story by Stephen Baxter
  • The Pilot, a 1976 novel by Robert P. Davis

Publications

  • 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, 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's brother Richard

Music

Bands

  • Pilot (Scottish 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" (song), by 50 Cent, 2014
  • "Pilots" (song), a 2001 song by Goldfrapp
  • "The Pilot" (song), by Double Experience, 2017
  • "Pilot", a song by Tyler, the Creator featuring Syd from the 2015 album Cherry Bomb
  • "Pilot", a song by Aldous Harding from the 2019 album Designer
  • "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
  • "Pilot", a song by Ravyn Lenae from the 2024 album Bird's Eye
  • "The Pilot", a 1976 song by England Dan & John Ford Coley from I Hear Music

Businesses

  • Pilot (pen company), a Japanese pen manufacturer
  • Pilot (studio), a Russian animation studio
  • Pilot Flying J, a North American chain of truck stops
  • Pilot Company, an American petroleum company
  • Pilot Software, an American business intelligence vendor

People

  • Pilot (surname), including a list of people with the name
  • Pilot Baba, nickname of Kapil Singh (1938–2024), Indian spiritual guru and former fighter pilot

Places

  • Pilot, Davidson County, North Carolina, 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, Victoria Land, Antarctica
  • Pilot Island, in Lake Michigan, Wisconsin, U.S.
  • Pilot Mountain (disambiguation)
  • Pilot Township (disambiguation)

Science and technology

  • PILOT, a high-level programming language developed in the 1960s
  • Pilot (operating system), designed by Xerox PARC in the 1970s
  • PalmPilot, a personal digital assistant produced by Palm, Inc.

Sports

  • Portland Pilots, the nickname for athletics at the University of Portland, U.S.
  • Seattle Pilots, a 1969 American baseball team that became the Milwaukee Brewers

Transportation

Automobiles

  • 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
  • Rover Pilot, a British car produced 1932–33

Automotive marques

  • Pilot Motor Car Company, early 1900s American automobiles with the Pilot marque
  • Pilot Cars Limited, early 1900s British automobiles with the Pilot marque
  • Pilotmotorenwerke Bannewitz, early 1920s German automobiles with the Pilot marque

Ships and boats

  • Pilot (1813 ship), a convict transport to Australia
  • Pilot (1914 boat), a pilot boat and museum ship in San Diego, California, U.S.
  • Pilot (1924 boat), a pilot boat in Boston
  • Pilot (icebreaker), a Russian icebreaker ship, converted in 1864

Trains

  • Pilot (locomotive attachment), or cowcatcher, a device mounted at the front of a locomotive to deflect obstacles
  • Pilot locomotive for double heading, an additional engine for additional traction, motive power, etc
  • Station pilot, a shunting engine based at a major passenger station

Other uses

  • , several Royal Navy ships
  • PILOT (finance), in public finance, a payment in lieu of taxes

See also

  • Piloting or pilotage, the act of navigating by visual landmarks over water or in the air
  • Pilot fish (Naucrates ductor), a small fish
  • Pilot job, a type of multilevel scheduling
  • Pilot light, a flame kept continually burning and used to light burners on household appliances
  • Pilot plant, a pre-commercial production system used to evaluate new technologies and designs
  • Pilot signal, or pilot tone, in telecommunications
  • Pilot whale, a whale-like dolphin
  • Pilotman, a railway worker who ensures that only one train enters a single track rail segment at a time
  • La Piloto, a 2017-2018 Spanish-language crime drama television series
  • Pilate (disambiguation)