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
• The Pilot (Lewisporte, Newfoundland and Labrador), newspaper serving the Lewisporte area of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
• 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. 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
• The Pilot, also known as Space Jockey, an extraterrestrial life form from the Alien franchise.

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
• PILOT, programming language

Others

• Pilot (aviation), an aviator who flies aircraft
• 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
• Maritime pilot, a mariner who guides ships through dangerous or congested waters, such as harbours or river mouths.

Acronyms

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

See also

• Pilate (disambiguation), a common misspelling
• Driver (operator of a land vehicle), a mistranslation from French or some other languages.