Takeoff callouts
Spoken V1, Rotate and V2 during the roll, armed from the Performance screen and re-armed automatically for the next leg.
Boeing 737-8 MAX Yoke for Infinite Flight
The real 737-8 MAX is flown with a yoke, so it deserves yoke inputs in the sim too. SkyYoke turns the iPhone in your pocket into a wireless 737-8 MAX yoke, throttle and rudder for Infinite Flight — no hardware, just your own Wi-Fi.
A Boeing 737-8 MAX yoke for Infinite Flight is a control column for the simulator's re-engined 737 — and SkyYoke builds one out of the iPhone you already own. Connected over your local Wi-Fi, the phone's tilt commands roll and pitch directly, so you bank the MAX by rolling your wrists and rotate by pulling back, exactly the inputs the real aircraft's yoke would send.
Boeing's newest 737 still speaks through a yoke
TAKEOFF CALLOUTS
80145150160 KT
ACCELERATINGV1ROTATEV2
- Plan itV1, VR and V2 are computed on the Performance screen.
- V1Spoken at decision speed as you accelerate.
- RotatePull back at VR — the callout cues the rotation.
- V2Safety speed called as you climb away.
Hold short of the runway in Infinite Flight's 737-8 MAX and you are sitting in a contradiction worth savoring: the newest 737 in the fleet, built around the oldest promise in the family — that the airplane answers to a control column in your hands. A Boeing 737-8 MAX yoke for Infinite Flight is what has been missing between that cockpit and a touchscreen, and SkyYoke supplies it from the iPhone you already own. The phone becomes the column: roll your wrists and the MAX banks; ease back at rotation speed and the nose lifts off the runway.
There is nothing to buy and nothing to plug in. SkyYoke discovers Infinite Flight on your Wi-Fi network automatically and flies the aircraft live, while your iPad stays a clean, full-screen window on the world outside.
The aircraft: a 737 rebuilt around its engines
TCAS
OTHER TRAFFICPROXIMATETRAFFIC, TRAFFICCLIMB, CLIMBCLEAR OF CONFLICT
- Other trafficDistant contacts show as open white diamonds.
- ProximateWithin 6 NM and 1,200 ft it fills in solid.
- Traffic advisoryAn amber circle and a spoken “Traffic, traffic.”
- Resolution advisoryA red square with a spoken “Climb, climb.”
- Clear of conflictThreat resolved — the callout stands you down.
The 737-8 MAX exists because airlines wanted the world's most familiar narrow-body to burn less fuel without retraining the people who fly it. Boeing's answer was to hang CFM LEAP-1B turbofans under the wing and finish each tip with the type's distinctive split-tip winglets — changes that make the MAX quieter and more fuel-efficient than the NG generation it builds on, while the flight deck stays recognizably, stubbornly 737.
That last part is the whole point of this page. The MAX kept the yoke. Where other modern airliners moved to sidesticks, this flight deck still expects two hands on a column — which is precisely the gesture SkyYoke's motion controls reproduce. If you have already flown the 737-800 in Infinite Flight, the MAX is the natural next leg: the same control language on the family's re-engined short- to medium-haul workhorse.
A 737-8 MAX yoke for Infinite Flight, made of motion
MOTION YOKE
WINGS LEVELBANK LEFTBANK RIGHTPITCH UP
- Hold & centreOne tap captures your grip as wings-level neutral.
- Tilt leftRoll the phone left and the aircraft banks left.
- Tilt rightRoll the other way to bank right — 1:1, smoothly.
- Tilt backEase the top toward you to pitch up and climb.
Switch SkyYoke to Motion Yoke and the iPhone stops being a screen and starts being a column. The app measures gravity against a neutral point you choose — not raw device angles — so the control is grip-independent: rest the phone flat on your lap like a desktop yoke, or hold it upright in front of you like the genuine article. Both grips read identically, and there is no gimbal lock waiting to bite at steep attitudes.
Tap Recenter whenever you shift in your seat and your current grip becomes the new neutral. A configurable tilt range from 15° to 60° decides how much wrist it takes to reach full deflection — tight and lively for short final, wide and stately for the cruise. And every axis runs through its own tuning chain:
- Sensitivity and expo, so the MAX answers gently around center but keeps full authority at the stops.
- Dead zone, rescaled so full travel is never lost to it.
- Inversion, trim and smoothing, to match your hands and quiet any jitter out of the signal.
Prefer the phone perfectly still? The Touch Joystick alternative is a self-centering on-screen pad — 1:1 with your finger, springing back to neutral the instant you let go.
One lever from takeoff thrust to the gate
SMART THROTTLE
CLIMB 88%IDLEREVERSEBRAKESBLOCKED
- Push up — thrustThe top of the lever is forward climb power.
- Pull to idleA haptic click marks the idle detent.
- On ground, fast — reverseIn the red zone the lever holds reverse thrust.
- Slowing — wheel brakesBelow 40 kt the same zone becomes proportional braking.
- Airborne — blockedReverse in the air is locked out with a warning.
The throttle gets the MAX treatment too: SkyYoke gives the 737 a single smart lever with three personalities. Push it forward and you have 0–100% thrust for the takeoff roll, with a haptic tick marking the idle detent on the way back. After touchdown, pull through idle into the red zone at 40 knots or faster and the lever engages reverse thrust and holds it — Infinite Flight normally demands that reverse be kept pressed, so SkyYoke does the pressing while you steer the rollout.
As the speed decays below 40 knots, that same red-zone travel quietly changes jobs and becomes proportional wheel braking, walking the MAX down to taxi speed. In the air the red zone is locked out entirely: try it and you get a warning banner and a repeating haptic instead of an incident. The lever even recolors by role — blue and green for forward thrust, amber for braking, red for reverse — so one glance tells you what your hand is commanding. The remote throttle page takes a closer look.
737-8 MAX quick reference
How the airplane and the app line up, at a glance:
| Manufacturer | Boeing |
|---|---|
| Family | 737 MAX — the re-engined generation of the 737 |
| Control style | Yoke (two-handed control column) |
| Engines | 2 × CFM LEAP-1B turbofans |
| Typical role | Short- to medium-haul narrow-body airliner |
| SkyYoke mapping | Motion or Touch Yoke → roll and pitch · smart throttle lever → thrust, held reverse and wheel brakes · on-screen rudder bar → yaw |
A working flight deck around the yoke
Flying the MAX is more than roll and pitch, so SkyYoke surrounds the yoke with the rest of the flight deck. Live HUD chips track IAS, altitude, heading and vertical speed, and a PFD-style speed tape with a trend arrow — plus an altitude tape with selected-value bugs — keeps your scan honest on approach. The systems panel handles the flows: battery, APU and external power for startup; lights and cabin signs for each phase; autobrake before landing; engine start and stop at the gate. It only shows controls the aircraft you are flying actually exposes.
Before departure, the Performance screen estimates V1, VR and V2 from built-in aircraft profiles, scaled by your actual weight and the density altitude, and checks the runway length while it is at it. Arm the callouts there and the takeoff roll gets a spoken "V1… rotate… V2" at exactly the right moments — your eyes never leave the centerline.
TCAS traffic scope
A navigation-display-style scope over the yoke pad, painting live multiplayer traffic with TCAS II-style advisories and spoken alerts.
Violation avoidance
Below 10,000 feet, VAS watches the 250-knot limit and manages the autopilot's speed target so a fast descent never costs you a violation.
The traffic scope and the speed protection each have a deep dive of their own — see TCAS for Infinite Flight and the Violation Avoidance System — and both are on duty whenever the MAX is. All of these are simulator aids and estimates, never certified avionics.
Get the MAX flying in five steps
- Join the same Wi-Fi. Your iPhone and the device running Infinite Flight need to share one network.
- Enable Infinite Flight Connect. Flip it on in Infinite Flight's settings so the simulator accepts SkyYoke's link.
- Bind the axes once. Map roll, pitch, throttle and rudder in Infinite Flight's Controllers settings — the in-app setup guide walks you through each one.
- Load the 737-8 MAX. Pick it from Infinite Flight's fleet, spawn at a gate, and let SkyYoke discover the simulator automatically.
- Fly. Tilt to bank, pull to rotate, and let one lever carry you from takeoff thrust to the runway turnoff.
The fine print: SkyYoke is an independent, unofficial app. Which aircraft appear in Infinite Flight's fleet — including the 737-8 MAX — and what each one can do is determined by Infinite Flight itself; SkyYoke controls whatever the simulator exposes. V-speeds, callouts and protections are estimates for the simulator only, never for real-world flight.
Frequently asked questions
Flying Infinite Flight's 737-8 MAX with your iPhone as the yoke.
What is a Boeing 737-8 MAX yoke for Infinite Flight?+
It is a way to fly Infinite Flight's 737-8 MAX with a physical control column instead of on-screen sliders. SkyYoke turns an iPhone into that yoke: the phone connects to Infinite Flight over your home Wi-Fi and tilting it commands roll and pitch in real time. Because the real 737-8 MAX is flown with a yoke, the motion controls mirror what the aircraft expects — bank by rolling your wrists, rotate by pulling back.
Does the motion yoke feel like a real 737 control column?+
It captures the essential gesture. SkyYoke reads the gravity vector relative to a neutral point you set, so rolling the phone banks the aircraft and pulling the top toward you raises the nose — the same inputs a column commands. You choose a tilt range between 15 and 60 degrees, recenter with one tap, and tune sensitivity, dead zone and expo per axis until the response matches your hands.
How does reverse thrust work on the 737-8 MAX with SkyYoke?+
After touchdown, pull the throttle lever into its red zone at 40 knots or faster and SkyYoke holds reverse thrust for you — Infinite Flight normally requires you to keep the reverse control pressed. As the rollout slows below 40 knots, the same lever travel becomes proportional wheel braking. In the air, reverse is blocked entirely, with a warning banner and a repeating haptic, so it cannot be deployed at altitude.
What do I need to fly the 737-8 MAX this way?+
An iPhone on iOS 17.2 or later running SkyYoke, plus a second device running Infinite Flight with Infinite Flight Connect enabled, both on the same Wi-Fi network. You bind the control axes once in Infinite Flight's Controllers settings — an in-app guide walks through it — then pick the 737-8 MAX from Infinite Flight's fleet and fly. No cables, adapters or extra hardware are involved.
Is SkyYoke affiliated with Boeing or Infinite Flight?+
No. SkyYoke is an independent iPhone app built on Infinite Flight's public Connect API. It is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Boeing, Infinite Flight LLC, or any aircraft manufacturer or simulator developer. Aircraft availability and behavior inside Infinite Flight are determined by Infinite Flight itself, and SkyYoke's callouts, V-speeds and protections are simulator aids and estimates only.
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