I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a pilot project (= one organized to test if an idea will be successful )
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These changes were shelved after pilot projects showed poor results.
a pilot scheme (= one that is tried on a small scale first to see if it is a good idea )
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The programme was introduced into 100 primary schools in a very successful pilot scheme.
a pilot study (= one done to find out if something will be successful )
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The government has just completed a pilot study, with some encouraging results.
automatic pilot
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Moving on automatic pilot, she tidied the room.
fighter pilot
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a fighter pilot
fly/pilot a plane
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I admire the guys who flew those planes.
pilot light
pilot officer
pilot whale
pilot/driver error
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Investigators believe the crash was caused by pilot error.
test pilot
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
automatic
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I leapt out of bed and dressed on automatic pilot .
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We fool ourselves by thinking we can go on automatic pilot , that we can survive by going through the motions.
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By now I was talking and singing on automatic pilot whilst my heart and brain were thudding with a heady mixture of adrenalin.
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What others do on automatic pilot becomes a tiresome, anxious, effortful task.
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If she could get to Tottenham Court Road tube station, she could get home almost on automatic pilot .
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I was on automatic pilot , doing what I do best.
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She had been so immersed in her anger and indignation that she had been working on automatic pilot herself.
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I've been on automatic pilot for 25 years.
experienced
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Mr Corps, who lived in Toulouse, was one of Britain's most experienced pilots .
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This feature is, of course, simple guide for less experienced pilots to finding the right half-mill chart for the journey.
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This possibility is worth suggesting to more experienced pilots , but, of course, is not suitable for a beginner.
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Travolta is a keen and experienced pilot .
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The following incident with an experienced pilot on a K6E drew attention to the importance of making smooth stick movements.
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Being one of the most experienced pilots in Bomber Command and having done an instructional tour, meant nothing.
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That would test even an experienced pilot .
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I used to do this with my more experienced pilots using the Falke motor glider on the runway at Lasham.
young
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Just seventeen ... she could become the country's youngest pilot .
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For the younger pilots , I had two strikes against me before I even began that were impossible to overcome.
■ NOUN
airline
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The whole exercise was a clear demonstration of the unequalled capabilities of the Mystère 20 as an airline pilot trainer.
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Church leaders should gather data much as airline pilots read their instrument panel during flight.
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Emerging technologies Airline pilots offer conflicting views about the safety of flying into Lindbergh Field.
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A longtime airline pilot , who did not want to be quoted by name, said weather conditions were ripe for icing.
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She was happier being the wife of an airline pilot .
error
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But aviation expert Peter March claims pilot error may not be too blame.
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Read in studio An airshow accident in which a Spitfire crashed in flames has been blamed on pilot error .
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The official report into the accident which killed David Kay and his wife Margaret says it was caused by pilot error .
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Investigations into both crashes had blamed pilot errors .
fighter
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The fighter pilot taking a little light relief.
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This boy wants to be a fighter pilot .
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Don Shepperd told the news conference, referring to the fighter pilots involved in the two encounters.
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During launch the crew use pressure suits very similar those worn by fighter pilots .
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The fighter pilots kept it hidden at the back of a hangar, because it was thoroughly unofficial.
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It shows a steely-eyed fighter pilot climbing into his Spitfire to do battle against the Luftwaffe.
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You can't be a fighter pilot without getting killed sooner or later.
force
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When pressed, she says her father was an Air Force pilot and she moved around a lot as a kid.
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Their father, an Air Force pilot , died when Linda was 9.
helicopter
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The model helicopter pilot is not alone in suffering from this problem.
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This explains why most of today's top helicopter pilots are connected with the model trade in some way!
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Walter Kovaleff, a helicopter pilot , said the hourly cost could run as high as $ 190.
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The helicopter pilots reported in by radio.
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The department has three helicopter pilots and two mechanics already on the force, said Kovaleff.
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A helicopter pilot has to fly to a point 200 kilometres due East.
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Life was getting very serious for helicopter pilots .
module
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The command module pilot faced the centre of the panel.
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The lunar module pilot occupied the right-hand couch.
plant
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Before production is begun, of multi-kilogram or even multi-tonne lots, each reaction step is carefully studied in the pilot plant .
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Assignments will include process development, pilot plant and full scale production, project management and customer interface.
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This is based on calculations performed by chemical engineers and also on experimental trials carried out in a laboratory or pilot plant .
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If it is for the modification of an in-house process only those parts up to the pilot plant stage are relevant.
project
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A recent pilot project of social work attachment in general practice has been undertaken recently in Upton on Severn.
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During the period of the pilot project the prompting system and database were paper driven.
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The contract followed fairly quickly, and on 1 January 1992 we began the pilot project .
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Any effective approach needs to build on the wealth of innovative pilot projects and experiments in primary and community health services.
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Only a pilot project , he insists, will determine whether or not the technology lives up to suppliers' promises.
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Financial assistance went via planning, pilot projects and government contracts, to specific firms and targeted economic sectors.
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Our pilot project aims to assess the feasibility of identifying people at risk, nothing more.
scheme
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In April 1982 Cambridgeshire introduced a four-year pilot scheme that involved seven volunteer schools: six secondary, one primary.
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It is actively looking for more pilot schemes to identify the greater efficiencies needed and the best options available for waste collection.
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Expansion of this pilot scheme into a district service is planned.
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A pilot scheme should give unemployed people aged over 55 £500 for an educational or training programme of their choice.
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The pilot scheme backed in principle by the committee yesterday is proposed for Darlington and Durham.
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The pilot scheme will be known as Staples Office Superstores.
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The measures were introduced following consultation with the public and disabled groups and will be monitored during an 18 month pilot scheme .
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This consideration has resulted in continuation of the same procedures with some minor modifications for the second phase of pilot schemes .
study
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A pilot study has already traced the progress of these new bodies since October 1988.
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The colours were roughly matched for salience in pilot studies with healthy observers.
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These encouraging results in pilot studies required confirmation in prospective and randomised trials.
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Methodology Initially a small database would be created as a pilot study .
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In the pilot study , a domain-specific dictionary was tested with a document from the same domain.
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The control group was treated with an oral triple therapy regimen which had previously been evaluated in a pilot study .
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The study is designed to be pilot study of this important issue.
test
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In March the manufacturer's test pilot flew the aircraft for its annual inspection check flight.
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The owner pilot accompanied the test pilot on this flight, but acted only as an observer.
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Former test pilots , engineers and craftsmen turned up to watch a fly past by two of the jets.
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The test pilot quietly waiting, literally for the paint to dry.
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I was talking this week to one of the test pilots on the Eurofighter.
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He is a former test pilot and qualified on the Boeing 707.
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I set off as a television test pilot and have ended up with my best-ever chance of winning the race.
whale
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In 1987, 1422 whales were killed, and in 1988, the toll rose to 1690 pilot whales.
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Blackfish was what the islanders had named pilot whales .
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In 1989 the reported kill figures were 735 pilot whales and 2 rare bottlenose whales.
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The stranding had left at least 28 pilot whales dead.
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These records show that strandings, especially of pilot whales , have increased over the past 25 years.
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Gillian Stacey, organiser of the campaign, claimed that the Faroese needlessly slaughtered 1,500 pilot whales every year.
■ VERB
become
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David Hartridge had become a fully-fledged pilot and was looked upon as a hero.
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By this point I had become a cocky pilot on dry asphalt, but snow and ice were something else.
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She became a pilot and now flies jumbo jets between Bali, Hawaii and Los Angeles.
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If he took this plane, he would become a pilot .
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An ambition to become a pilot was foiled by an eye-sight deficiency.
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Since the crashes, the Navy has eliminated a program that allowed navigators, weapons experts and radio officers to become pilots .
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Let's hope she never becomes a pilot .
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One does not attend a series of classes and thus become a pilot .
fly
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The number of training sorties flown by its pilots had dropped 7. 8 percent a year for nearly a decade.
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The Triplane flew its useless pilot home, unhurriedly, with dignity.
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After that I would sit around and talk flying with the other pilots .
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Why would they believe the plane flew higher than the pilot contended?
follow
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The study follows on a pilot study in 1983-84 supported by the University of York.
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But when we got out they stared and said nothing, and I followed the pilot up the lane they made.
train
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In the early stages of training most pilots tend to chase the localiser needle.
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But only when I was training to be a pilot did I finally begin to feel that I had earned it.
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I imagine that the summit of this kind of programming is achieved in the chambers used to train aeroplane and spacecraft pilots .
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The Air Force was right to suspend training and require pilots to undergo several hours of review on joint air space regulations.
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There are now 80,000 commercially trained pilots worldwide.
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She trained as a pilot at Haddenham near Aylesbury and regularly flew around the area.
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But they will mainly be used to train pilots in vertical take-off and attack missions.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
ace pilot/player/skier etc
kamikaze pilot
on automatic pilot
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I wasn't really asleep - I was just kind of running on automatic pilot.
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I was on automatic pilot, doing what I do best.
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Tommy Blue was on automatic pilot.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The government sponsored a pilot project to find out how the education reforms would work in schools.
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The results of the pilot have been encouraging.
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the ship's pilot
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He was a natural in a world where most pilots are made, not born.
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The pilot announced that the next glow of civilization would be Reno, some six hundred miles away.
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The pilot sat behind the gunner, offering a very small forward profile.
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The other officer climbed in and sat between me and the pilot .
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This pilot study is designed to throw some light on these important questions.
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Those who do not fancy long haul can share short flights between two or three budding pilots.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
airline
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He repeated his intention to meet with airline chief pilots to discuss their concerns.
fighter
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The downsizing Navy is training fighter pilots elsewhere.
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Even the simulated F-16 fighter jet you were piloting into a hostile zone near the Strait of Hormuz.
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I wanted to be a fighter pilot .
plane
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The uncommon 7-year-old wanted to be the youngest person to pilot a plane across the country.
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Should grabbing hold of that famous stiff-armed bronze trophy come with a mandatory retirement age, like piloting a passenger plane ?
scheme
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Over the past year Mrs Fairclough has piloted a scheme with one general practice on discharge planning.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The coursebook was piloted in schools all over Europe.
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The new housing program will be piloted in Chicago and Kansas City.
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Who was piloting the Boeing 727 when the planes collided?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Amelia had a wonderful time piloting her pet.
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I hope that we have a reasonable record on piloting Britain's foreign affairs through troubled times.
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In 1995-96 the school was piloting career-related courses in all seven career clusters.
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Jean is being carried toward Smuttynose on a sailboat piloted by her brother-in-law, Rich.
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Oxfordshire piloted the forms in Banbury from October 1991 to March this year.