# Pilot (disambiguation)

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
* "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 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
* "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

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