TCAS traffic scope
An Airbus-style navigation-display scope over the yoke pad, painting live multiplayer traffic with TCAS II v7.1-style categories and spoken advisories.
長機身的 A330 值得比戳玻璃更好的操控。SkyYoke 把你的 iPhone 變成 Infinite Flight 的無線 A330-300 操縱桿——側桿、Airbus 油門象限與方向舵,全靠你自己的 Wi-Fi 駕馭這架廣體客機。
Infinite Flight 專用的 Airbus A330-300 操縱桿,是一種讓你從執行模擬器以外的裝置來駕駛長機身 A330 的控制器。SkyYoke 用你的 iPhone 打造這具控制器:傾斜手機——或拖曳螢幕上的操縱桿——來做橫滾與俯仰,透過帶檔位的 Airbus 油門推桿設定推力,再用方向舵操控條掌握航向,全程以 60 Hz 走區域 Wi-Fi,無需購買任何硬體。
Infinite Flight 機隊裡的每一架客機都對你的雙手有所要求,而 A330-300 要求的是沉穩。它機身修長、體重不輕、阻尼優異——是一架獎勵提早做出細微輸入、卻厭惡太晚做出大動作的噴射機。正是這種性格,讓一具Infinite Flight 專用的 Airbus A330-300 操縱桿值得你刻意挑選,也是 SkyYoke 用你手邊最精密的儀器——口袋裡那台 iPhone——來打造它的原因。
安排很單純。Infinite Flight 持續在你的 iPad 或其他裝置上運作,當作視窗與面板,而你手中的手機則化身側桿、油門桿與方向舵。兩者透過 Infinite Flight 的 Connect API,在你的家用網路上自動找到彼此——不必配對、不必夾在桌上、也不必額外充電。
在 neo 世代到來之前,先有它:A330-300,Airbus 大型雙發家族中加長、高載客量的元祖。亞洲、歐洲與北美的航空公司都把它當作中長程幹線的固定班底,靠兩具翼下大型渦扇引擎在各大樞紐之間運送密集載重——各家航空選配的動力有 General Electric CF6、Pratt & Whitney PW4000 或 Rolls-Royce Trent 700。機組員逐漸珍視乘客從不會察覺的特質:溫馴的操控、誠實的穩定性,以及狀況不對時的寬容個性。
這份性格在進入模擬器後依然存續。在 Infinite Flight 的機隊裡,當你想要一趟從容而非慌亂的飛行時,-300 正是你會挑的廣體機——而它較短的手足A330-200,則以客艙長度換取更長航程。把 -300 飛好,多半是一場克制的練習,也因此格外倚重你手中那具操控的品質。
The real A330 is a fly-by-wire Airbus, flown one-handed from a compact sidestick rather than a yoke. A phone held in one hand is far closer to that arrangement than any desk-bolted column — the same logic that makes SkyYoke a natural fit across the family, from the A320 on up. You get two interchangeable stick models:
Whichever you choose, every axis — pitch, roll, yaw and brake — carries its own sensitivity, dead zone, expo curve, inversion, trim and smoothing. For the -300, a touch of expo with some smoothing is the difference between sawing at the stick and the long, patient corrections a stretched widebody actually wants. Underneath it all, a 60 Hz control loop with change detection and rate limiting keeps inputs immediate without flooding the network, and a link watchdog reconnects on its own if your Wi-Fi blinks mid-flight.
Setting thrust on a real Airbus is not about sliding a lever to a percentage — it is about clicking the lever into a gate. SkyYoke recreates that, and it does so automatically: load any Airbus type, the A330-300 included, and the smart throttle becomes a gated quadrant — REV FULL, REV, IDLE, CLIMB, FLX·MCT and TOGA — with a haptic tick each time the lever crosses a gate. Push up to FLX·MCT for a reduced-thrust takeoff, ease back into CLIMB as you clean up, and feel each detent land in your palm without ever glancing down at the phone.
Beneath the gates, the lever keeps its ground sense. Rolling out at 40 knots or faster, pulling into the red zone engages reverse thrust and holds it for you — Infinite Flight normally requires reverse to be held manually. Below 40 knots, the same travel becomes proportional wheel braking for the taxi in. Airborne, reverse is simply blocked, with a warning banner and a repeating haptic so it cannot happen by accident, and the whole lever recolors by role: blue and green for forward thrust, amber for braking, red for reverse.
The essentials of the aircraft, and how SkyYoke maps itself onto them:
| Manufacturer | Airbus |
|---|---|
| Family | A330 — the long-fuselage original of the line |
| Control style | Fly-by-wire sidestick, flown one-handed |
| Engines | Two wing-mounted turbofans (GE CF6, Pratt & Whitney PW4000 or Rolls-Royce Trent 700) |
| Typical role | High-capacity widebody twin on medium- and long-haul trunk routes |
| Stick in SkyYoke | Motion Yoke (gravity tilt) or Touch Joystick, tuned per axis |
| Throttle in SkyYoke | Airbus detent lever — REV FULL / REV / IDLE / CLIMB / FLX·MCT / TOGA with haptic gates |
| Rudder in SkyYoke | Self-centering rudder bar along the bottom of the screen |
A widebody flight is mostly cruise, and cruise is mostly monitoring — so SkyYoke keeps a glass-cockpit layer on the phone while you fly. Live HUD chips track IAS, altitude, heading and vertical speed beside a ground/air phase chip and a spoiler annunciator, while an Airbus-style PFD pairs a speed tape with a trend arrow against an altitude tape, both wearing cyan bugs for your selected targets.
An Airbus-style navigation-display scope over the yoke pad, painting live multiplayer traffic with TCAS II v7.1-style categories and spoken advisories.
Spoken "V1", "Rotate" and "V2" during the takeoff roll, armed from the Performance screen and re-armed automatically for the next departure.
Watches the 250-knot restriction below 10,000 ft while the autopilot flies, clamping the speed target before the simulator issues a violation.
The scope is the full TCAS for Infinite Flight experience — range rings, relative-altitude tags and "Traffic, traffic" in your ears — while the callouts arm from a Performance screen that holds live weights with an editable what-if loadout, an offline airport database, runway wind components from in-sim weather, and V-speed estimates scaled by weight and density altitude. The Violation Avoidance System stands guard whenever the autopilot is flying an airliner like the -300, clamping the speed target — or trading descent rate for energy — and narrating what it is doing with spoken alerts. Every one of these is a simulator aid built on estimates, not certified avionics.
Flying the A330-300 in Infinite Flight with an iPhone joystick, explained.
It is a controller that flies the A330-300 from outside the device running the simulator. SkyYoke turns an iPhone into that controller: the phone connects over your local Wi-Fi through Infinite Flight's Connect API and acts as a sidestick-style joystick, thrust lever and rudder. You bank and pitch by tilting the phone or with an on-screen pad, with no physical hardware to buy.
Yes. SkyYoke applies its Airbus quadrant automatically when you fly an Airbus type. The throttle becomes a gated lever with REV FULL, REV, IDLE, CLIMB, FLX·MCT and TOGA positions, and a haptic tick fires at every gate crossing, so you can set takeoff or climb thrust by feel without looking away from the simulator.
The real A330 is a fly-by-wire Airbus flown one-handed from a compact sidestick, so a controller you hold in one hand is closer in spirit to its flight deck than any desk-mounted yoke. The A330-300's calm, deliberate handling also rewards SkyYoke's per-axis tuning: add expo and smoothing, and small wrist movements become the smooth, early inputs a long widebody likes best.
Two devices on the same Wi-Fi network: an iPhone on iOS 17.2 or later running SkyYoke, and a second device running Infinite Flight with Infinite Flight Connect enabled. You bind the control axes once in Infinite Flight's Controllers settings, guided by the in-app setup walkthrough, and SkyYoke discovers the simulator automatically. No cables, adapters or extra hardware are involved.
Yes, while the autopilot is engaged. The Violation Avoidance System arms about 2,000 feet above the 250-knot limit that applies below 10,000 feet, then clamps the autopilot speed target or, in a steep descent, idles the throttle and manages the descent rate to keep the A330-300 inside the limit. It explains itself with spoken alerts and a colored annunciator, and it is an aid, never a guarantee.
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