Learn To Fly

Wings Academy is the hottest place to unleash your Top Gun: Maverick spirit, develop leadership skills, or even throw a bachelor party

- SUFFIAN HAKIM

THE TAGLINE ON THE WEBSITE doesn’t say everything, though it does capture part of the appeal of Wings Academy. “Reach for the Skies,” it says in bold white font, “with Singapore’s Largest Retail Flight Simulator Centre”.

The space itself is pretty cool – you would be hard-pressed to identify it in the sea of offices that dot Changi Business Park. True, most businesses there serve the aviation industry, but a space filled with full-fledged flight simulators for civil and military aircraft? Wings Academy even sits on the fifth floor of Haite Building, which is used for office and storage spaces. Among the nondescript offices is a thing of wonder, the brain child of Founder and CEO Fabian Lim.

But it is more than just Singapore’s largest retail flight simulator. Wings Academy is as much a training centre as it is an entertainment space – its physical space can be best described as video game arcade-meets-upmarket office conference room. After stepping past standard-issue glass doors, you will find flight simulator machines facing the sides of the large room, a projector screen in the front, and the middle area serving as a multipurpose space – one can turn it into a conference-type setting with chairs, or an entertainment space with a table spread or a bar.