Pilot

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Contents 1 Occupations 2 Products and companies 3 Paper publications 4 Film and television 5 Music 6 Biology 7 Computer science 8 Others 9 Acronyms 10 See also

Pilot can refer to:

[edit] 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. This is the original meaning.

[edit] Products and companies

• Ford Pilot, a car
• Honda Pilot, a Crossover SUV made by the Honda corporation.
• Honda Pilot (ATV), an all-terrain vehicle produced by Honda in 1989 and 1990.
• 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 Corp. is 50% owner of Pilot Travel Centers, LLC
• Pilot (pen company), headquarters situated in Japan; one of the world's major manufacturers of pens
• Pilot (appliances)

[edit] Paper publications

• "Pilot" (short story) by Stephen Baxter
• The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea, a historical fiction novel by James Fenimore Cooper
• The Virginian-Pilot, newspaper serving the Hampton Roads part of Virginia
• Pilot Magazine UK, a UK based General Aviation magazine

[edit] 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. There are also countless series whose pilot episodes are titled "Pilot"
• Film pilot: a trial segment used to attract further financing for a film
• The Pilot, Part 1 and The Pilot, Part 2, the two episodes compromising Seinfeld's Season 4 finale
• Pilot Guides, a travel documentary and guide television series

[edit] Music

• Pilot (band), a pop rock group best known for their 1975 hit songs "Magic" and "January"

[edit] 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.

[edit] Computer science

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

[edit] Others

• 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

[edit] Acronyms

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

[edit] See also

• Pilate (disambiguation), a common misspelling