Boeing 757-200 Yoke for Infinite Flight

The narrowbody that climbs like it means it

Line a 757-200 up on the centerline, stand the power up and count to three: the speed tape sprints, the nose wants to fly before you ask, and a lightly loaded departure pitches into a climb that embarrasses jets twice its size. Infinite Flight captures that eagerness — which is precisely why a Boeing 757-200 yoke for Infinite Flight changes the airplane. The real -200 is flown through a classic Boeing control column, and an airplane this responsive rewards inputs you make with your hands, not a fingertip skating across a flat screen.

SkyYoke supplies the missing hardware without any hardware at all. The iPhone in your hands becomes the column; the device running Infinite Flight becomes the windshield. Roll your wrists left and the long fuselage rolls with you. Ease the phone back at V_R and you feel the rotation as a motion you made, not a gesture you drew.

Why pilots call it the flying pencil

The 757-200 is long, slim and famously overpowered — a narrowbody with the silhouette of a sharpened pencil and a pair of underwing turbofans that give it thrust to spare. Crews loved it for the same reasons simmers do:

• Sprightly climb performance. The thrust margin that defines the type turns every departure into the best part of the flight.
• One jet, two jobs. It is equally at home hopping between city pairs in the morning and crossing the Atlantic that night — few narrowbodies stretch across both missions so naturally.
• A genuine Boeing yoke. No sidestick abstraction: the -200 is steered through a conventional control column, which is exactly the input style SkyYoke's motion controls recreate.

You will find the 757-200 in Infinite Flight's fleet, and it carries that whole personality with it — the spring-loaded acceleration, the brisk rotation, the cruise that arrives sooner than you planned for.

A Boeing 757-200 yoke for Infinite Flight, built from motion

SkyYoke's Motion Yoke does not read raw device angles. It measures the gravity vector against a neutral point you choose, which makes the control grip-independent: rest the phone flat on your lap like a desktop yoke, or hold it upright like the column itself — both produce identical commands, and there is no gimbal lock to wander into. Tap Recenter whenever you shift in your seat and the neutral follows you.

How far you lean for full deflection is yours to decide, with a tilt range configurable from 15° to 60°. From there, every axis runs through its own conditioning chain — sensitivity, dead zone, expo curve, inversion, trim and smoothing — so the pitch response that suits a brisk -200 rotation and the roll rate you want on final can each be dialed in separately. Prefer the phone to stay still? Switch to the Touch Joystick, an on-screen self-centering pad that maps 1:1 and springs back to neutral the instant you release it.

One lever from takeoff thrust to taxi speed

An overpowered jet makes the throttle the second flight control, and SkyYoke gives it a single intelligent lever — the same one behind the dedicated remote throttle for Infinite Flight. Push it up for 0–100% forward thrust and let the -200 do what it is famous for. The clever part comes after touchdown:

Pull the lever down into its red zone while you are on the runway at 40 kts or above and SkyYoke engages held reverse thrust — Infinite Flight expects you to keep holding reverse, so the lever holds it for you while you steer the rollout. As the jet decelerates below 40 kts, that same red travel hands over to proportional wheel braking, letting you trail the deceleration smoothly down to taxi speed. In the air the red zone is locked out entirely, with a warning banner and a repeating haptic if you reach for it, and a haptic tick marks the idle detent so you can find it without looking. The lever even recolors by role — blue and green for forward thrust, amber for braking, red for reverse — so a glance tells you what your hand is commanding.

The 757-200 and SkyYoke at a glance

A flight deck wrapped around the yoke

While your hands fly, the screen keeps watch. Live IAS, altitude, heading and vertical-speed chips sit beside a ground/air phase chip and a spoiler annunciator, and PFD-style speed and altitude tapes — complete with a trend arrow and cyan selected-value bugs — track every knot of the -200's enthusiasm. The systems panel covers the housekeeping a long sector demands: battery, APU and external power, the full set of exterior lights, autobrake from OFF to MAX, engine start and the cabin signs, showing only the controls the aircraft you are flying actually exposes.

That last one matters more on this airframe than most: the -200 accelerates so willingly in a descent that Infinite Flight's 250-kt limit below 10,000 ft sneaks up fast. The Violation Avoidance System clamps your autopilot speed target or trades descent rate to hold the line, announces what it is doing, and hands your dialed speed back afterwards — an aid, never a guarantee. The TCAS scope follows the same philosophy: real logic, spoken advisories, zero pretension of being the real box.

From parking stand to V2 in five steps

1. Share a network. Put your iPhone and the device running Infinite Flight on the same Wi-Fi.
2. Open the door. Enable Infinite Flight Connect in Infinite Flight's settings — SkyYoke auto-discovers the simulator and connects with a tap.
3. Bind once. Map roll, pitch, yaw and throttle in Infinite Flight's Controllers settings. The in-app setup guide walks each axis through, and you never do it again.
4. Load the pencil. Pick the 757-200 from Infinite Flight's fleet, set your loadout on the Performance screen if you like, and arm the callouts.
5. Fly it like a Boeing. Wrists for bank, a pull for rotation, one lever from takeoff thrust to the last knot of the rollout.