TCAS traffic scope
An Airbus-ND-style scope over the yoke pad, fed by live multiplayer traffic — diamonds, amber advisories, red resolution advisories, with spoken callouts.
Infinite Flight 裡的 A220-300 是一架側置操縱桿噴射機——那就用側置操縱桿來飛它。你的 iPhone 化身無線 A220-300 操縱桿:手腕一傾控制滾轉與俯仰,滑動帶檔位的 Airbus 油門推桿,讓平板專心當你的前擋風玻璃。
Infinite Flight 的 Airbus A220-300 操縱桿,是一種用第二台裝置來駕駛 A220-300 的控制器——而 SkyYoke 就用你手邊那支 iPhone 打造出這樣一支。透過區域 Wi-Fi 連線後,手機化身無線側置操縱桿,支援體感或觸控操作、帶檔位的 Airbus 油門推桿與方向舵踏板,把你的操作即時送進模擬器。
在搜尋列打上 Infinite Flight 的 Airbus A220-300 操縱桿,跳出來的大多是你平板根本連不上的桌上型硬體。更好的答案,其實就在你身邊。A220-300 本來就是圍繞側置操縱桿設計的:飛行員把手腕靠在中央控制台上,用指尖飛行,線傳飛控電腦則把每一個輸入修飾得優雅流暢。SkyYoke 完整重現了這個姿勢。你手上的 iPhone 就是側置操縱桿,房間另一頭的 iPad 就是窗外景象,兩者透過你自家的 Wi-Fi 對話,不必插線、不必配對、不必充電。
Within Infinite Flight's fleet, the A220-300 is the airliner that still feels like an airplane. It is lighter on its feet than the long-haul giants, it climbs away from short runways with energy to spare, and it settles onto final at speeds that leave you room to think. That agility is wasted on a flat pane of glass — it comes alive when roll and pitch live in your wrist instead.
This jet began life as the Bombardier CSeries CS300, a clean-sheet design that joined the Airbus family in 2018 and took the A220-300 name with it. Under each wing hangs a Pratt & Whitney PW1500G geared turbofan — the gearbox lets the big fan turn slower than the core behind it, which is a large part of why the cabin is famously hushed and the fuel burn famously thin. With 130 to 160 seats down a single aisle, it is the airplane carriers reach for on thin medium-haul routes where a larger jet would fly half-empty: real range, sipped slowly.
And it is flown like a thoroughly modern Airbus — sidesticks, fly-by-wire, small deliberate inputs. Which is exactly where a handheld controller stops being a compromise and starts being the point.
SkyYoke gives you two grips on the stick. Motion Yoke reads the gravity vector against a neutral you choose, so the hold is up to you — phone flat on your lap like a wrist resting on the armrest, or raised upright in front of you. There is no gimbal lock, the full-deflection tilt range adjusts from 15° to 60°, and a one-tap recenter captures a fresh neutral whenever you shift in your seat. Prefer to keep the phone still? Touch Joystick draws a self-centering pad on the glass that tracks your thumb 1:1 and springs back to center the instant you let go.
Every axis — pitch, roll, yaw and brake — carries its own conditioning:
Dial it in once and the feel travels with you when you step up to the bigger A320. Underneath, a 60 Hz control loop with change-detection and rate limiting keeps the link crisp, and a watchdog reconnects automatically if your network blinks.
Load an Airbus and SkyYoke's smart throttle changes shape on its own. The smooth slider becomes a gated quadrant — REV FULL / REV / IDLE / CLIMB / FLX·MCT / TOGA — and every gate crossing lands as a haptic tick in your palm. A takeoff in the A220-300 means pushing up through CLIMB and feeling the click into FLX·MCT or TOGA; a touchdown means walking the lever back to IDLE and pulling through into reverse.
The lever also knows where you are. Infinite Flight requires reverse thrust to be held, so on the rollout at 40 kts or more the red zone holds it for you; below 40 kts the same pull becomes proportional wheel braking for the taxi in. Airborne, reverse is blocked outright behind a warning banner and a repeating haptic, so a slip of the thumb can never deploy it. The whole lever 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.
One card to keep by the throttle — what the airplane is, and how SkyYoke maps itself onto it.
| Manufacturer | Airbus (originally developed by Bombardier) |
|---|---|
| Family | A220 — formerly the CSeries; the -300 is the stretched CS300 |
| Control style | Sidestick with fly-by-wire |
| Engines | 2 × Pratt & Whitney PW1500G geared turbofans |
| Typical role | 130–160-seat single-aisle for thin medium-haul routes |
| SkyYoke stick | Motion Yoke tilt or Touch Joystick → roll and pitch |
| SkyYoke throttle | Gated Airbus quadrant: REV FULL / REV / IDLE / CLIMB / FLX·MCT / TOGA |
| SkyYoke rudder | Self-centering rudder bar along the bottom of the screen |
Hand-flying is the point, but the numbers stay in reach. A HUD strip shows live IAS, altitude, heading and vertical-speed chips, a ground/air phase chip and a spoiler annunciator. Behind it sits an Airbus-style PFD: a speed tape with a trend arrow and an altitude tape, both wearing cyan selected-value bugs, so the picture reads the way an Airbus flight deck taught you to read it.
An Airbus-ND-style scope over the yoke pad, fed by live multiplayer traffic — diamonds, amber advisories, red resolution advisories, with spoken callouts.
Arm them on the Performance screen and SkyYoke speaks V1, Rotate and V2 during the roll — estimates scaled by weight and density altitude.
Below 10,000 ft with the autopilot on, VAS can clamp the speed target to 250 kts or manage descent energy, with annunciators and spoken alerts.
Be clear-eyed about what these are: the TCAS scope and its advisories are simulator display aids, not certified avionics, and the Violation Avoidance System is an aid, never a guarantee. They make the A220-300 nicer to fly — they do not fly it for you.
Flying the A220-300 with an iPhone sidestick, answered.
The most natural fit is the phone already in your hand. SkyYoke turns an iPhone into a wireless sidestick for Infinite Flight over your home Wi-Fi: tilt to roll and pitch, or use an on-screen self-centering pad. Because the real A220-300 is flown with a sidestick rather than a yoke, a handheld controller mirrors the actual control feel — and there is no hardware to buy, charge or pair.
The A220-300 has a modern fly-by-wire flight deck flown with small one-handed sidestick inputs. SkyYoke's Motion Yoke reads gravity rather than raw angles, so it works flat on your lap or held upright, with a tilt range adjustable from 15 to 60 degrees, per-axis sensitivity, expo curves and one-tap recentering. Small wrist movements become smooth roll and pitch — the same philosophy the real flight deck is built on.
Yes, automatically. On Airbus types the throttle becomes a gated quadrant — REV FULL, REV, IDLE, CLIMB, FLX-MCT and TOGA — with a haptic tick at every gate crossing. On the rollout at 40 kts or above, pulling into the red zone engages held reverse thrust for you; below 40 kts the same zone becomes proportional wheel braking. In the air, reverse is blocked with a warning.
Yes. Arm takeoff callouts from SkyYoke's Performance screen, which estimates V-speeds from built-in airliner performance profiles scaled by your current weight and the density altitude, and checks that the runway is long enough. During the takeoff roll the calls are spoken once per departure and re-arm automatically for the next leg. They are simulator estimates only and never for real-world use.
The A220-300 is part of Infinite Flight's fleet; which aircraft exist in the simulator and what features they carry is determined entirely by Infinite Flight. SkyYoke is an independent, unofficial companion app that connects over your local Wi-Fi using Infinite Flight's public Connect API. It is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Infinite Flight LLC or Airbus.
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