Control Infinite Flight Remotely

What it means to control Infinite Flight remotely

AI VOICE COPILOT

Hold to talk…“Climb and maintain one zero thousand”Parsing on-device…ALT → 10,000 ft ✓ applied

1. Hold the micPress and hold to talk — push-to-talk.
2. Speak naturallySay it like a pilot; speech is read on-device.
3. Parsed on-deviceApple Intelligence turns it into exact commands.
4. AppliedThe target is set — audio never leaves your phone.

Strip the phrase down and it sounds simple: the simulator runs on one screen, and a different device tells it what to do. The interesting question is how much of the flight you can actually hand over. SkyYoke's answer is nearly all of it. When you control Infinite Flight remotely with the app, the iPhone in your hands is not a gamepad bolted onto a sim — it is the working side of the flight deck, holding a live two-way conversation with Infinite Flight while your iPad stays dedicated to the out-the-window view.

Here is the territory the phone covers:

• Primary flight controls — bank and pitch by tilting the phone, or with an on-screen self-centering touch pad.
• Thrust and braking — a single smart lever for forward power, held reverse thrust on the rollout, and proportional wheel braking at taxi speed.
• Yaw — a self-centering rudder bar for taxi steering and crosswind work.
• Camera — swipe to pan your view and switch cameras without touching the simulator.
• Autopilot — the AP master plus ALT, V-S, SPD and HDG targets, with VNAV, LNAV and approach modes.
• Aircraft systems — lights, APU, external power, engine start, autobrake, cabin signs and more.
• ATC — a numbered keypad mirroring Infinite Flight's radio menu, backed by a live message log.
• Awareness and planning — a TCAS-style traffic scope, a moving map and a takeoff performance screen.
• Voice — an optional on-device AI copilot that sets targets and flips switches when you ask.

How the wireless link works

LIVE MAP

DEP · KSFOFL360 · 488 ktON TRACKARR · KLAX

1. DepartureYour aircraft appears over real-world terrain.
2. En routeLive altitude, ground speed and heading update beside it.
3. On trackA breadcrumb trail follows the flown route.
4. ArrivalNearby airports and traffic show all the way down.

There is no pairing ritual and no cable. Infinite Flight ships with a built-in network interface called the Connect API; switch it on and the simulator quietly announces itself to other devices on the same Wi-Fi network. SkyYoke listens for that announcement, lists the simulator it found, and joins with one tap. If your router filters those announcements — some guest networks and mesh setups do — you can type the simulator's IP address in manually and connect just the same.

From that moment the two devices hold a direct, device-to-device conversation. Your inputs flow one way; the aircraft's state — speed, altitude, heading, nearby traffic — streams back the other, feeding the instruments on the phone. And because Infinite Flight describes exactly what the loaded aircraft supports, SkyYoke's panels adapt to match: a switch the current airframe does not expose simply never appears, so you are never tapping dead buttons.

Four steps from install to airborne

CONNECT

SAME WI-FIDISCOVEREDAXES BOUNDCLEARED FOR TAKEOFF

1. Same Wi-FiPut your iPhone and the simulator device on one network.
2. Auto-discoverSkyYoke finds the sim on the LAN — connect in a tap.
3. Bind axes onceMap roll, pitch, throttle and yaw, guided step by step.
4. FlyTilt, slide and speak to fly the aircraft in real time.

1. Switch on Infinite Flight Connect. In Infinite Flight, open Settings, choose General, and enable Infinite Flight Connect. This is the simulator's door for companion apps.
2. Join the same Wi-Fi and connect. Make sure the iPhone and the simulator device share one network, open SkyYoke, and tap the simulator when it appears in the device list — or enter its IP address if discovery is blocked.
3. Bind your axes once. Point Infinite Flight's Controllers settings at SkyYoke's virtual axes for roll, pitch, throttle and yaw. The in-app setup guide walks through each one, and you only ever do this the first time.
4. Fly. Tilt or drag to steer, slide the lever for power, and run the autopilot, systems and ATC from their panels — everything stays live for the whole session.

Responsiveness you can land on

SMART THROTTLE

CLIMB 88%IDLEREVERSEBRAKESBLOCKED

1. Push up — thrustThe top of the lever is forward climb power.
2. Pull to idleA haptic click marks the idle detent.
3. On ground, fast — reverseIn the red zone the lever holds reverse thrust.
4. Slowing — wheel brakesBelow 40 kt the same zone becomes proportional braking.
5. Airborne — blockedReverse in the air is locked out with a warning.

Latency is the difference between flying an aircraft and negotiating with one, so the link is built around a 60 Hz control loop: sixty times a second, SkyYoke checks what changed and sends exactly that. Change-detection and rate limiting keep the traffic lean — an axis you are not moving costs the network nothing — which is why the response feels immediate even on a busy household network.

The link also assumes Wi-Fi will misbehave eventually. A watchdog monitors the connection continuously and reconnects on its own the moment the network returns, so you keep flying instead of digging through menus. The safety net goes further: an optional fail-safe engages the autopilot if the app disconnects or gets backgrounded, every control locks automatically while the simulator is paused, and leaving the cockpit screen releases anything you were holding.

A tour of the remote cockpit

MOTION YOKE

WINGS LEVELBANK LEFTBANK RIGHTPITCH UP

1. Hold & centreOne tap captures your grip as wings-level neutral.
2. Tilt leftRoll the phone left and the aircraft banks left.
3. Tilt rightRoll the other way to bank right — 1:1, smoothly.
4. Tilt backEase the top toward you to pitch up and climb.

The flying itself starts with the yoke. Motion mode reads gravity rather than raw rotation, so the controls behave the same whether the phone lies flat on your lap or stands upright in your grip, with a tilt range adjustable from 15° to 60° and a one-tap recenter. Prefer to keep the phone still? A self-centering touch joystick tracks your thumb 1:1 and springs home the instant you let go. The remote yoke page tells the full story.

Beside it sits the smart throttle: one lever that pushes forward for thrust, holds reverse for you on a landing rollout — Infinite Flight normally makes you hold it yourself — and becomes a proportional wheel brake below taxi speed, plus a rudder bar running along the bottom edge of the screen. The remote throttle page covers the detents, the haptics and the Airbus gated quadrant.

Around the controls sit the panels. The autopilot panel uses swipe-to-scrub value strips that accelerate with your finger, one-tap altitude presets and a turn-180 helper. The systems panel gathers batteries, APU, external power, every exterior light, cabin signs, autobrake and engine start. The ATC keypad numbers Infinite Flight's radio options 1 through 10 and keeps a timestamped message log with an unread badge. And a glass-cockpit HUD shows live IAS, altitude, heading and vertical-speed readouts beside an Airbus-style speed tape and altitude tape with cyan selected-value bugs.

Three things no plastic yoke can do

TCAS

OTHER TRAFFICPROXIMATETRAFFIC, TRAFFICCLIMB, CLIMBCLEAR OF CONFLICT

1. Other trafficDistant contacts show as open white diamonds.
2. ProximateWithin 6 NM and 1,200 ft it fills in solid.
3. Traffic advisoryAn amber circle and a spoken “Traffic, traffic.”
4. Resolution advisoryA red square with a spoken “Climb, climb.”
5. Clear of conflictThreat resolved — the callout stands you down.

Hardware controllers stop at axes and buttons. Software on a phone — with a microphone, a speaker and a live data feed — can go further. SkyYoke layers on spoken takeoff callouts, a reactive windshear warning, a TCAS-style traffic system, and a violation avoidance system that watches the 250-knot limit so your grade does not pay for a moment's distraction. Three highlights:

What you need

AUTOPILOT

ALT10000

HDG270

SPD250

SET ALTITUDESET HEADINGSET SPEEDAUTOPILOT ENGAGED

1. Dial altitudeSwipe the ALT cell — the scrub rate scales with your speed.
2. Dial headingSet the heading bug the same way.
3. Dial speedArm the speed target with a swipe.
4. EngageTap the master and the autopilot flies it.

Requirements at a glance

Controller	iPhone on iOS 17.2 or later running SkyYoke (coming soon to the App Store)
Simulator device	A second device — typically an iPad — running Infinite Flight
Network	Both devices on the same Wi-Fi network; the link stays entirely local
Simulator settings	Enable Infinite Flight Connect, then bind SkyYoke's axes once in Controllers
Optional voice control	AI Voice Copilot needs an Apple-Intelligence-capable iPhone on iOS 26

SkyYoke is an independent project — not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Infinite Flight LLC — and it is coming soon to the App Store. If a full wireless cockpit sounds like your kind of flying, the early-access list below is where launch news lands first.