Boeing 737-900 Yoke for Infinite Flight

A Boeing 737-900 yoke for Infinite Flight, straight from your pocket

Taxi a 737-900 to the hold-short line in Infinite Flight and you are sitting at the front of a very long airplane: the final stretch of the 737NG, with rows of seats trailing far behind the wing and a rotation that wants patience rather than muscle. SkyYoke turns the iPhone in your hand into a Boeing 737-900 yoke for Infinite Flight — a control column you actually hold. Roll your wrists and the jet rolls with you; ease the phone back as the speed tape passes VR and that long fuselage follows your hands into the climb.

There is nothing to buy and nothing to plug in. Your iPhone and the device running Infinite Flight simply share a Wi-Fi network; SkyYoke discovers the simulator on its own and links up with a tap. The tablet keeps doing what it does best — scenery and instruments — while the flying itself moves into your hands.

The longest of the Next Generation 737s

The real -900 is the 737NG family taken to its limit, stretching Boeing's single-aisle workhorse toward 180–220 seats. Carriers like Alaska, Delta and United fly it hard on dense domestic trunk routes — the city pairs that need near-widebody capacity at narrowbody economics — behind two wing-mounted CFM56 turbofans and a traditional Boeing control column up front.

All that length is also the airplane's personality. A long fuselage leaves less room between a smooth touchdown and an over-flared one, so the -900 has earned a reputation for rewarding finesse: a deliberate rotation on departure, a shallow and disciplined flare at the other end. It is precisely the sort of airplane that punishes clumsy inputs — and precisely the sort that makes a real yoke feel essential. You will find it in Infinite Flight's fleet alongside its shorter siblings; if the 737-800 is more your length, the same controls carry straight over.

Hold the control column, not the glass

SkyYoke's Motion Yoke never reads raw device angles. It measures the gravity vector against a neutral you define, which makes it grip-independent: hold the phone upright like a Boeing column or leave it flat on your lap, and bank and pitch behave identically, with no gimbal lock anywhere in the envelope. One tap on Recenter captures a fresh neutral whenever you shift position — a habit worth building just before you turn final in the -900.

Every axis then runs through its own tuning chain, so the yoke can be as docile or as crisp as you like:

• Tilt range from 15° to 60°, setting how far you lean for full deflection.
• Sensitivity and dead zone, rescaled so full travel still reaches the stops.
• Expo curves for delicate corrections near neutral — exactly what a long-body flare asks for — with full authority at the edges.
• Inversion, trim and smoothing to fit your hands and quiet any jitter.

Rather keep the phone still? Switch to the Touch Joystick: an on-screen, self-centering pad that maps 1:1 and springs back to center the instant you release it. Either way, a self-centering rudder bar runs along the bottom of the screen for crosswind work and taxi steering, and the whole yoke-and-throttle layout lives on a single screen.

From takeoff thrust to the high-speed exit

The -900's mission is short legs flown often, which means a lot of takeoffs and a lot of rollouts. SkyYoke condenses all of it into one smart lever. Push it forward and you command 0–100% thrust, with a haptic tick marking the idle detent on the way back. After touchdown, at 40 knots or above, pulling into the red zone engages held reverse thrust — Infinite Flight expects you to keep holding reverse, so the lever holds it for you while you steer. As the rollout decays below 40 knots, the same red travel hands over to proportional wheel braking, letting you judge exactly how hard to slow for the high-speed exit.

The lever recolors as its role changes — blue and green for forward thrust, amber for braking, red for reverse — and in the air, reverse is simply blocked, with a warning banner and a repeating haptic if you try. One hand, one lever, the whole arrival.

The -900 at a glance

A flight deck that flies the trip with you

Flying the -900 the way the airlines do means several takeoffs a day, several descents through the 250-knot band and several arrivals into crowded airspace. SkyYoke keeps the supporting cast on the same screen as the yoke:

On the glass itself, live IAS, altitude, heading and vertical-speed chips ride above the controls, with PFD-style speed and altitude tapes, a trend arrow and cyan bugs for your selected targets. The systems panel handles the cockpit flow — battery, APU, exterior lights, seat-belt signs, autobrake, engine start — and only shows the controls the current aircraft actually exposes. The traffic scope and the violation avoidance system are simulator aids, not certified avionics — helpful eyes, never a guarantee.

Get started in five steps

1. Share a network. Put your iPhone and your Infinite Flight device on the same Wi-Fi.
2. Enable Infinite Flight Connect. Flip it on in Infinite Flight's settings so the simulator accepts SkyYoke's connection — the app then finds it automatically.
3. Bind your axes once. Map roll, pitch, throttle and yaw in Infinite Flight's Controllers settings; the in-app setup guide walks you through every step.
4. Load the -900. Pick the 737-900 from Infinite Flight's fleet, then set your weights and runway on the Performance screen if you want the callouts armed.
5. Fly. Tilt to bank, pull to rotate, and walk the lever forward — the link runs at 60 Hz and reconnects by itself if your network blips.