Remote Yoke and Throttle for Microsoft Flight Simulator

The PC renders the world; your hands hold the phone

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.

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 can paint every runway on Earth, yet the controls question hasn't moved since the nineties: either you bolt a desk's worth of plastic to your furniture, or you steer a 200-ton airliner with a mouse. A remote yoke and throttle for Microsoft Flight Simulator answers it with hardware you already own. SkyYoke makes your iPhone the control column, the thrust quadrant and the switch panel — wireless, over your own network, from the couch, the kitchen table or the armchair in front of a TV-sized external view.

MSFS 2024 support is in development right now, built on the same control engine that already powers the remote yoke and throttle for Infinite Flight. This page is the roadmap: what the MSFS experience will include, how it will connect, and where the limits are.

A free Windows companion handles the plumbing

Getting an outside device talking to MSFS has traditionally meant editing SimConnect XML files, opening firewall ports by hand and decoding decade-old forum threads. SkyYoke folds that entire chore into IF Yoke Bridge, a small, free companion app that runs on the same Windows PC as the simulator. The bridge talks to MSFS locally, configures the necessary firewall rule on its own, and announces itself on your network so the iPhone discovers the PC automatically. No config files, no IP addresses, no port numbers — install, launch, fly.

The bridge also irons out two MSFS quirks worth knowing about. First, the sim expects axis values to arrive continuously; send a throttle position once and it drifts back toward neutral. The bridge re-sends your last input on a steady cadence, so a thrust setting holds until you actually move the lever. Second, MSFS exposes a true progressive brake axis, which makes the braking zone of SkyYoke's throttle genuinely analog — a light squeeze for a smooth taxi stop, a firm pull for a rejected takeoff.

What the remote yoke and throttle will control in Microsoft Flight Simulator

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 primary controls come straight across from the existing cockpit. Roll and pitch flow from the Motion Yoke — tilt the phone like a control column — or from the on-screen Touch Joystick if you'd rather the phone stay still. Yaw rides a self-centering rudder bar along the bottom of the screen, and thrust and braking share one smart lever.

Around those axes sits the systems layer, each item one tap from the yoke:

• Landing gear, flaps and spoilers for configuration changes without alt-tabbing.
• Parking brake and pushback to get off the gate phone-in-hand.
• Exterior lights — set the lighting from the same panel you fly with.
• Pause, for the moments when the doorbell outranks the descent.

Autopilot without reaching for the mouse

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.

Managed flight carries over too. The autopilot panel gives you the AP master plus four targets — altitude, vertical speed, airspeed and heading — each set on a swipe-to-scrub strip that scrolls faster the quicker you flick it. NAV mode couples the autopilot to your lateral plan, and approach mode arms the capture for the arrival. Re-dialing a crossing altitude becomes a two-second gesture on the phone instead of a hunt across a 4K cockpit for the one pixel that accepts a scroll wheel.

Aircraft presets, from the stock fleet to the Fenix

Third-party MSFS aircraft are famous for doing things their own way: commands a default airliner obeys can be ignored or reinterpreted by a study-level add-on. SkyYoke's answer is per-aircraft presets that tailor the control mapping to the airframe you load.

Planned aircraft presets for MSFS 2024

Generic	A standard mapping that fits the stock fleet and most add-ons out of the box.
iniBuilds A320	Airbus-tailored commands plus the gated thrust-detent quadrant.
iniBuilds A350	The same Airbus treatment scaled to the long-hauler, detents included.
Fenix A320	A custom thrust path for levers that ignore standard commands, with cockpit-lever movement via the free MobiFlight module.

Pick any Airbus preset and the smart throttle reshapes into a gated quadrant — REV FULL, REV, IDLE, CLIMB, FLX·MCT and TOGA — with a haptic tick at every gate crossing, the same detent feel SkyYoke already gives Airbus types in Infinite Flight. Setting FLX for takeoff or coming back to CLIMB at thrust reduction works by feel, eyes on the runway rather than on the phone.

The Fenix A320 earns its own row because it needs one: its thrust levers ignore standard SimConnect throttle commands entirely. SkyYoke drives thrust through the method that actually works on the Fenix, and when the free MobiFlight WASM module is installed it writes the lever variable directly, so the levers in the virtual cockpit track your phone's quadrant. If that's your aircraft, the Fenix A320 remote joystick page goes deeper.

What stays Infinite Flight-only

Some SkyYoke features lean on data and hooks that only Infinite Flight provides, so they will not appear in the MSFS cockpit:

• The TCAS traffic radar and the moving map, both fed by Infinite Flight's live multiplayer traffic.
• The ATC keypad and timestamped message log.
• The performance planner with weight-and-runway V-speed estimates.
• The Violation Avoidance System, which guards Infinite Flight's overspeed rules.
• The AI Voice Copilot.

If you want all of it today, the full cockpit described on control Infinite Flight remotely is where SkyYoke already does everything at once.

How setup will work

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.

The goal is a first flight measured in minutes, not an evening of configuration:

1. Install IF Yoke Bridge. Download the free companion onto the PC that runs MSFS and launch it beside the sim — it sets up the firewall rule on its own.
2. Start a flight in MSFS 2024. Load in at a gate or on a runway; the bridge links to the simulator locally on the same machine.
3. Open SkyYoke on your iPhone. With both devices on the same Wi-Fi, choose Microsoft Flight Simulator on the select-simulator screen.
4. Tap your PC when it appears. The phone discovers the bridge by itself — there are no addresses to type.
5. Pick your aircraft preset and fly. Generic, iniBuilds A320, iniBuilds A350 or Fenix A320 — then tilt, slide and swipe.

Want to be in the first wave when the bridge goes live? Join the early-access list — you'll get the App Store launch date and word the moment MSFS support is ready.