Definition of "pilotage"

pilotage

noun
countable and uncountable, plural pilotages
1. The use of landmarks to guide a vessel or aircraft to its destination.
  Quotations
  "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
2. The occupation of a pilot.
3. The fee paid to a pilot.