pilotage

plural pilotages

1. countableuncountableThe use of landmarks to guide a vessel or aircraft to its destination.

   "It will not be light this half hour, and I will answer for his safe pilotage while dark; but if the day once break, the fishermen will be abroad, and there will not be a chance of escape."

   1832, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Heath's Book of Beauty, 1833, The Enchantress, page 35

   Synonyms: pilotry, piloting

2. countableuncountableThe occupation of a pilot.

   Near-synonym: (aviation pilot) flying

   Synonyms: piloting, flying

3. countableuncountableThe fee paid to a pilot who guides a ship to its anchorage (a roadstead or wharf) or to its outbound channel.