Answer:

PILOT

Answer	Crossword Clue
PILOT	Automatic .. (navigation system)
PILOT	Cockpit guide
PILOT	Wiley Post, once

PILOT	Series sample
PILOT	Airline employee
PILOT	TV trial balloon
PILOT	Chesley Sullenberger, e.g.
PILOT	Stove light
PILOT	One in plane view?
PILOT	Opening episode
PILOT	Frequent flier?

PILOT	Introductory episode
PILOT	Series starter
PILOT	Kitchen light
PILOT	TV series prototype
PILOT	Cockpit figure
PILOT	Plane flier
PILOT	Steer
PILOT	First airing

PILOT	Test on the tube
PILOT	Flier
PILOT	Test on TV
PILOT	Light in the kitchen
PILOT	Lindbergh, notably
PILOT	Fly
PILOT	Joystick user
PILOT	Plane starter

PILOT	Tube test?
PILOT	Delta worker
PILOT	Sitcom's test episode
PILOT	Maneuver, as a ship
PILOT	Cockpit occupant
PILOT	Flight plan filer
PILOT	Light in the furnace
PILOT	One whose work is up in the air?

PILOT	Snoopy in a Sopwith Camel, e.g.
PILOT	Aviator
PILOT	Wiley Post, for one
PILOT	Word with light or episode
PILOT	First episode of many a series