Pilot

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Pilot can refer to:

• Aviator, in aviation, an Aircraft pilot is someone who controls an aircraft
• Ford Pilot, a car
• Harbour pilot, in shipping, someone who guides ships through the waters near a harbour or dangerous coastal waters
• 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 #5, a 1947 film
• Pilot (band), a pop music group best known for their 1975 hit songs "Magic" and "January"
• Pilot (experiment), a precursor to a full study
• Pilot (Farscape), a character in the science fiction television series Farscape.
• Pilot (locomotive), the device at the front to deflect obstacles (also known as a cowcatcher)
• "Pilot" (short story) by Stephen Baxter
• Pilot (spaceflight), an aviator for spaceflight
• The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea, a historical fiction novel by James Fenimore Cooper
• The Pilot (writer), a pen-name of Ken Ogger, scientology writer
• Pilot Corporation is 50% owner of Pilot Travel Centers, LLC
• Pilot fish, (Naucrates ductor), a small fish that often swims with sharks
• Pilot light, a small outlet of gas kept continually burning and generally used to light the larger burners on the appliance
• Pilot Pen Corporation, headquarters situated in Japan, one of the world's major manufacturers of pens
• Pilot signal, or pilot tone, in telecommunications, provided as a frequency or phase reference
• Pilot Travel Centers, LLC, primarily sells over-the-road diesel fuel
• 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.
• The Virginian-Pilot, newspaper serving the Hampton Roads part of Virginia.

PILOT can also be an acronym:

• PILOT programming language, in computer science
• PILOT (finance), in public finance, a payment in lieu of taxes

In the English language, pilot does not refer to the driver of an automobile or motorcycle. The word pilote is, however, used for this purpose in French. From its general use, apparently, a form of the word is used in Japanese for the operator of a giant robot and gets back-translated into the scripts or subtitles of many anime shows.

[edit] See also

• Pilate, a common misspelling.

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