The SilverFast ScanPilot is understood as an on-the-fly guide".

The ScanPilot should aid users who are new to SilverFast or to scan software in general in so far that starting the ScanPilot will bring you quickly to a optimized scan result without the need to study the SilverFast documentation.

Simply click the Prefs button in the ScanPilot window (a new dialog appears)
unselect the check box open at startup and the ScanPilot will not appear unless you call it with the aeroplane-button in the preview window.

Simply click the Prefs button in the ScanPilot window (a new dialog appears)
in this dialog you'll see all tools that are available to be loaded into the ScanPilot. Tic the boxes of those tools you want to include in the ScanPilot's workflow.
Untic those tools that should be excluded from the ScanPilot's workflow.