The phrase "a sort of pilot" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that serves as a preliminary version or test for a larger project or initiative.
Example: "The company launched a sort of pilot program to test the new software before a full rollout."
Alternatives: "a kind of trial" or "a type of prototype."
Now, as a sort of pilot project for a Museum of Accidents, Mr. Virilio has been given a chance to illustrate what he means in an unusual exhibition called "Unknown Quantity," on display at the Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art here through March 30.
The SGCI will be formed around a sort of pilot study done in 2015, a survey of 5,000 people in the research community that suggested 5 main areas on which the institute should focus.
In the end, Flournoy didn't lose his job; body cameras are scheduled to arrive later this year and be assigned to fewer than a third of HBPD officers as a sort of pilot program.
A second psychiatrist testified that White had "exploded" -- that he was on a sort of "automatic pilot" at the time of the killings.
Couldn't they also feel justified in killing their parents in order to survive?" Because the mini-series is intended as a sort of back-door pilot for what its producers hope will be a continuing "Battlestar Galactica" series, Mr. Moore acknowledges that it raises more questions than it answers.
Tablets with built-in 3G have been a sort of consumer visibility pilot program for widespread deployment of non-phone devices on mobile networks.
She added that she was functioning on a sort of adrenalized, automatic-pilot mode.
And there's a sort of complacency and a automatic pilot to their self-defeating policies that's been building up over a long period of time.
Director Stewart Hendler said "We're either the best-funded web series of all time, a sort of mid-road healthy TV pilot, or a super-low-budget movie".
The other sort of pilot is the bar pilot, and he is a member of either the United New York Sandy Hook Pilots Association, or the United New Jersey Sandy Hook Pilots Association.
