Fly-by-Wire
Mobile Yoke and Joystick for iPhone
Mobile flight simulation is a revolution - the world in the palm of your hand. Fly-by-Wire is a mobile yoke and joystick to add that extra bit of realism and help you grease that next landing.
Fly-by-Wire is a third-party add-on for the popular mobile flight simulator Infinite Flight. Fly-by-Wire allows your phone to function as a yoke or joystick, along with a full set of flight controls. Simply turn it on, connect it, and off you go.
The Yoke
The Yoke setting features all the commands you could need to safely fly your plane from a separate device. These include:
- Accelerometer-based pitch and roll
- Throttle control (with reverse thrust)
- Flaps
- Spoilers
- Lights
- Short-press to cycle camera and long-press to cycle the HUD
- Camera movement
- On-screen rudder
- Gear
- Brakes
- Stick-shaker stall-warning
- Automatic autopilot activation in case of a disconnect
The Joystick
The Joystick setting is more simplistic, but it allows for an unprecedented variety of flight; devoting one hand to the flight controls and leaving the other free to tend to on-screen actions.
- Accelerometer-based pitch, roll, and yaw
- Brakes
- Short-press to cycle camera and long-press to cycle the HUD
- Camera movement
- Stick-shaker stall-warning
- Automatic autopilot activation in case of a disconnect
More Information
For more information such as Setup and Tutorials, Contact Information, and Pricing, visit us at our website or at flybywire.app
Please note that features displayed in this post are not final and subject to change.
Thank you
I want to extend a huge thank you to @Cameron. Without his help, advice, and answers to my endless questions I would not have made it half as far as I have.
I also want to thank my beta team (@Laura, @Cameron, @Tyler_Shelton, @MishaCamp, @JoshFly8, @GHamsz, @AdamCallow, @RAH, @THE-OP, @DeerCrusher, @Levet, @Dillon_Lewis, @Trio, and @CaptSnilloc). Theyāve been providing great feedback throughout the whole process of building this app and have been incredibly helpful.
Personal
I first got the idea for this app over the summer. Iām a glider pilot, so Iāve only flown aircraft that have control sticks ā never a yoke. Flying on Infinite Flight while using a tablet or phone is amazing, but it wasnāt what I was used to. With no knowledge of networking or Swift, and only two semesters of computer science under my belt, I set out to build a mobile joystick.
Iāve learned a ton along the way. Plenty of it was about programming, but Iāve also learned a lot about planning and what it takes to actually make an app. This idea has changed plenty since I began ā initially I was only going to build a joystick, the idea of a yoke hadnāt crossed my mind when this entered beta. Itās been a lot of fun getting to this point, and I canāt wait to see where it goes after this!
