Infinite Flight Remote Throttle

Why a remote throttle should be one lever

TAKEOFF CALLOUTS

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ACCELERATINGV1ROTATEV2

1. Plan itV1, VR and V2 are computed on the Performance screen.
2. V1Spoken at decision speed as you accelerate.
3. RotatePull back at VR — the callout cues the rotation.
4. V2Safety speed called as you climb away.

There is a five-second window after touchdown where everything happens at once: spoilers deploy, reverse comes in, the centerline demands your eyes, and somewhere in the middle the brakes take over. On a touchscreen, that window turns into a finger-twisting scramble between separate controls. SkyYoke's Infinite Flight remote throttle was built around exactly that moment — a single lever on your iPhone that understands the phase of flight and quietly swaps jobs as your speed changes.

The contract is easy to fly and hard to get wrong:

• Forward range. From the idle gate to the stop, the lever commands 0–100% thrust, like any throttle.
• Red zone, on the ground at 40 knots or above. Pulling past idle engages reverse thrust — and keeps it engaged.
• Red zone, on the ground below 40 knots. The identical pull becomes proportional wheel braking.
• Red zone, in the air. Locked out. The lever refuses, warns and buzzes until you return it to the forward range.

Ground contact and ground speed decide which behavior you get; there is no mode to select and no toggle to remember. You operate the lever the way you would operate a real one, and the appropriate thing happens.

Held reverse, the way Infinite Flight wants it

Infinite Flight has a quirk every simmer discovers on their first jet landing: reverse thrust works only while the control is actively held. Let go, and the engines spool straight back toward idle — which on a tablet means keeping a thumb pinned to the glass through the entire rollout while you also try to steer.

SkyYoke removes the pinning. Pull the lever through the idle gate into the red zone while rolling at 40 knots or faster, and the app takes over the holding: reverse stays commanded, continuously, until you push the lever back out of the zone. The depth of the pull sets how much reverse you get, and the lever itself turns red so there is never a question about what is engaged. Your thumb is free for the rudder bar, where it belongs during a crosswind rollout.

Why braking lives on the same lever

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.

Reverse thrust earns its keep early in the rollout, when speed is high; as the aircraft slows, wheel brakes finish the job — which is why real crews come out of reverse and ride the brakes to the runway exit. SkyYoke encodes that handover directly into the lever. Once ground speed drops below 40 knots, the red zone stops meaning reverse and starts meaning brakes: a shallow pull slows you gently, a deep pull hauls you down firmly, fully proportional the whole way. The lever shifts to amber so the change of role is visible at a glance.

The practical win is screen space and workload. There is no separate brake axis competing for room, and no second slider to hunt for while your exit approaches. One control takes the aircraft from touchdown speed to walking pace, and your hand never moves.

A hard wall against reverse in the air

Context-aware also means knowing when to refuse. Drag the lever toward the red zone while airborne and SkyYoke blocks the command outright: nothing is sent to the simulator, a warning banner appears on screen, and a repeating haptic pulse runs until the lever is back in the forward range. It is the same philosophy behind the app's other guardrails — landing-gear changes are blocked on the ground, and every control locks while the simulator is paused. A protection you can feel is a protection you will not fight.

Smart throttle behavior by lever zone

Forward range — any phase of flight	0–100% thrust, lever in blue-green. A haptic tick marks the idle detent at the bottom of the range.
Red zone — on the ground, 40 kts or above	Held reverse thrust. Pull depth sets the amount; the lever turns red and reverse stays engaged until you push back out.
Red zone — on the ground, below 40 kts	Proportional wheel braking. The deeper the pull, the harder the brakes; the lever turns amber.
Red zone — airborne	Blocked. No command reaches the simulator; a warning banner and a repeating haptic run until the lever returns to forward.
Airbus types — automatic	Gated quadrant with REV FULL, REV, IDLE, CLIMB, FLX·MCT and TOGA detents, plus a haptic tick at every gate crossing.

Gates you can feel, colors you can read

AIRBUS DETENTS

TOGAFLX / MCTCLBIDLEREV

1. TOGAFull takeoff / go-around thrust at the top gate.
2. FLX / MCTReduced-thrust takeoff and maximum continuous.
3. CLBThe climb detent — set it and leave it.
4. IDLEBack to idle; every gate buzzes a haptic click.
5. REVPull past idle for reverse thrust on the runway.

Glass has no texture, so SkyYoke borrows the iPhone's haptics to put the texture back. A crisp tick marks the idle detent every time the lever crosses it, which means you always know — eyes on the runway, not on the phone — whether you are above or below idle. The recoloring carries the rest of the story: blue-green through the forward range, amber while braking, red while reverse is engaged. A glance tells you the state; your thumb tells you the gate.

On Airbus types, the throttle goes further and becomes a gated quadrant automatically. The travel divides into the detents an A320 pilot would recognize — REV FULL, REV, IDLE, CLIMB, FLX·MCT and TOGA — and a haptic tick fires at each gate crossing, so setting climb thrust feels like clicking the lever into a slot rather than chasing a percentage. If flying Airbus procedure is your thing, the Real Airbus for Infinite Flight page covers the full sidestick-and-quadrant experience.

Tuning the remote throttle

Under the styling runs the same signal pipeline that conditions the rest of the app's axes. The throttle adds a reverse-direction option, so the lever can travel whichever way feels natural in your grip, plus adjustable smoothing to damp out thumb jitter on a bouncing lap. Commands ride a 60 Hz control loop with change detection — values are transmitted only when they actually change, which keeps latency low without flooding your Wi-Fi — and a link watchdog reconnects automatically if the network blips mid-flight.

Three steps from idle to TOGA

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. Join the same Wi-Fi. Run Infinite Flight on your iPad or other device with the Connect API enabled, open SkyYoke on your iPhone, and the app discovers the simulator on the network automatically.
2. Bind the axes once. Map throttle — along with pitch, roll and yaw — in Infinite Flight's Controllers settings. The in-app setup guide walks through every screen the first time.
3. Fly the lever. Push up for thrust, pull through the gate on the rollout, and let your ground speed decide between reverse and brakes.

The throttle is one half of the flight deck. The other half — tilt-to-fly motion controls — lives on the Infinite Flight remote yoke page, and the two meet in the complete remote yoke and throttle setup.