A Real Boeing Feel for Infinite Flight

Why a real Boeing for Infinite Flight starts with the yoke

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.

Airbus went to the sidestick in the late eighties. Boeing looked at the same technology and kept the column — the 777 and 787 fly by wire, yet there is still a wheel and a column in front of each pilot, moving through your hands as the airplane maneuvers. That stubborn choice is the personality of the brand. So when you fly a 777 in Infinite Flight by dragging a thumb across glass, the defining input of the type simply isn't there. A real Boeing for Infinite Flight needs a yoke between you and the airplane, and SkyYoke builds one out of the iPhone already in your pocket.

The Motion Yoke maps the phone straight onto the control column. It measures the gravity vector against a neutral point you choose — not raw gyro angles — which keeps the grammar honest: roll your wrists and the wings follow; pull the top edge toward you and the nose comes up. Because the reference is gravity, the mapping holds in any grip:

• Any posture. Rest the phone flat on a lap or hold it upright like the column itself — bank and pitch behave identically, with no gimbal lock anywhere in the envelope.
• Your travel, your choice. A configurable tilt range from 15° to 60° sets how far you lean for full deflection — snappy for the 757, slow and deliberate for a heavy 747.
• Recenter on tap. Shift in your seat mid-cruise, tap once, and your current attitude becomes the new neutral.
• Per-axis tuning. Sensitivity, dead zone, expo curve, inversion, trim and smoothing are set independently for pitch, roll and yaw.

If you would rather keep the phone still, a self-centering Touch Joystick is one switch away, and both control models feed the same 60 Hz loop. The remote yoke guide goes deeper on how each one flies.

Rotation day: arming V1, Rotate and V2

TAKEOFF CALLOUTS

80145150160 KT

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.

Nothing sounds more like a Boeing flight deck than a takeoff roll with callouts. SkyYoke's Performance screen — available when you fly Infinite Flight — reads your live aircraft weight, lets you run a what-if loadout against an MTOW bar, and pairs an offline airport database with runway selection that works out headwind and crosswind components from the in-sim weather. From all of that it estimates V1, VR, V2, VREF and VAPP for your weight and density altitude, and checks whether the runway you picked is actually long enough.

Arm the callouts there and the departure becomes a two-pilot operation. The jet accelerates, you hear "V1," then "Rotate" — and that word is your cue to do the most Boeing thing this app offers: pull the phone smoothly toward you and feel the nose track your wrists into the climb. "V2" follows as the safety speed passes. The callouts fire once per departure and quietly re-arm themselves for the next leg.

One lever, three jobs on the rollout

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.

Boeing crews fly thrust with free-moving levers rather than gated detents, and SkyYoke's smart throttle keeps that character: a single lever from idle to the stop. Push it all the way forward and you have TOGA-style full thrust for the roll. The clever part waits at the other end of the flight. Touch down and pull through idle into the red zone — at 40 knots or above, that engages reverse thrust and holds it. Infinite Flight expects reverse to be held continuously, so the lever does the holding while your other hand keeps the jet on the centerline. Once the speed decays below 40 knots, the same red zone hands over to proportional wheel braking for the taxi off the runway.

The lever recolors as its job changes — blue and green for forward thrust, amber for braking, red for reverse — and a haptic tick marks the idle detent so you can find it by feel. Reach for reverse while airborne and the app flatly refuses, posting a warning banner with a repeating haptic. The remote throttle page covers the whole system in detail.

Flows you run before pushback

Real Boeing operations are flows and checklists, and SkyYoke's systems panel turns the first ten minutes of a session into exactly that. The panel only shows controls the current aircraft actually exposes, so every switch you see is live. A typical before-pushback flow in a 777 might run:

1. Main battery on, then external power while you set up the cockpit.
2. Nav lights on, and panel lighting where the aircraft offers it.
3. Seat-belt and no-smoking signs on as boarding wraps up.
4. Start the APU, then drop external power.
5. Beacon on — the universal signal that the ramp is about to get loud.
6. Engine start, autobrake set for departure, taxi light on, and you're ready for the tug.

Strobes and landing lights wait for the runway, autobrake steps through OFF, LOW, MED and MAX, and the same panel carries the HUD, FPV and flight-data toggles once you're airborne.

Traffic on the scope, weight in your hands

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.

Two more layers separate a controller from a flight deck. The first is traffic awareness: a navigation-display-style TCAS scope drawn right over the yoke pad, fed by Infinite Flight's live multiplayer traffic and sorted with TCAS II v7.1-style logic — open diamonds for other traffic, filled diamonds for proximate contacts, amber circles for traffic advisories and red squares for resolution advisories, with range rings from 5 to 80 NM and spoken callouts that run from "Traffic, traffic" to "Clear of conflict." It is a simulator display aid rather than certified avionics, and the TCAS deep dive walks through every threshold.

The second is mass. A heavy should feel heavy, and SkyYoke leans on the iPhone's haptic engine to sell it:

Every Boeing in the Infinite Flight hangar

This page is the hub; each type below has its own guide. Infinite Flight's Boeing roster runs fifteen aircraft deep across six families: the 737-700, 737-800, 737-8 MAX and 737-900 for short- and medium-haul work; the 747-200, 747-400 and 747-8 for four-engine ceremony and freight; the 757-200, the hot rod of the lineup; the long-haul 777-200ER, 777-200LR and 777-300ER plus the 777F freighter; and the 787-8, 787-9 and 787-10 Dreamliners. SkyYoke flies all of them with the same yoke, the same callouts and the same panel — no per-aircraft setup required.

Getting started takes an iPhone on iOS 17.2 or later, a second device running Infinite Flight on the same Wi-Fi, and one pass through the in-app guide to bind the control axes; the app finds the simulator on the network by itself. And if your loyalties lie with the sidestick instead, the Airbus hub is waiting.