Pilot 🧑‍✈️
Copy & Meaning

The pilot emoji, depicting a person in pilot uniform alongside an airplane. This emoji is used to express pilots, captains, and aviation-related themes. Common usage includes 'Pilot dreams🧑‍✈️' 'Want to be a captain🧑‍✈️' or 'Flying planes🧑‍✈️' This is the gender-neutral version. Added in Unicode 12.1 in 2019 as part of the profession emoji series.

Pilots fly various aircraft including passenger jets, cargo planes, fighter jets, and helicopters, requiring extensive training and rigorous certifications. Pilots work for airlines like Japan Airlines (JAL), All Nippon Airways (ANA), American, Delta, United, British Airways, Lufthansa, and aircraft manufacturers like Airbus, Boeing, and Lockheed Martin. The emoji can represent pilot characters from films like 'Top Gun,' 'Sully,' 'Flight,' 'Catch Me If You Can,' TV series like 'Pan Am,' and anime like 'Porco Rosso' and 'Macross.' It's a popular emoji for children's career dreams and adult aviation enthusiasts.