#aviator
- Rookie pilot — A slangy, ironic, or pejorative term used in aviation communities or Romanian military jargon to designate a young, inexperienced pilot, a flight school student, or a novice who displays an overly confident or reckless attitude during flight.
- Aeroplanist — A historical or archaic name given to an airplane pilot or aviator, especially during the pioneering era of aeronautics; a person who operated or navigated an aeroplane. This structural term highlights the direct connection of flying personnel with early fixed-wing aircraft, being later completely replaced by the universal term 'pilot'.
- Aviatrix — A licensed woman who pilots an aircraft (airplane, helicopter, glider) or who is professionally engaged in air navigation; a female pilot. As an adjective, it describes a female nature, passion, or action structurally or thematically linked to the field of aviation and flight.
- Aviator — A licensed person who pilots an aircraft or is part of its flight deck crew; a pilot, aeronaut, or air navigator. As an adjective, it refers to an element, behavior, style, or piece of equipment (such as the famous aviator sunglasses) specific to aeronautical professionals.
- Aviator — An archaic, literary, or regional term used extremely rarely to designate a pilot, an aviator, or a person who conducts and operates an airplane or a motorized flight vehicle. This word, temporarily integrated into early aeronautical terminology through assimilation from other Romance languages, has been almost entirely replaced in current vocabulary by the stabilized neologism 'aviator' or the functional term 'pilot'.