pilotage

pilot +‎ -age

pilotage (countable and uncountable, plural pilotages)

1. The use of landmarks to guide a vessel or aircraft to its destination.
   • 1832, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Heath's Book of Beauty, 1833, The Enchantress, page 35:

     "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."

2. The occupation of a pilot.
3. The fee paid to a pilot.

From piloter +‎ -age.

• IPA^(key): /pi.lɔ.taʒ/

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pilotage m (plural pilotages)

1. pilotage (all senses); piloting

• cabine de pilotage

• “pilotage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.