Opening in Calgary — Early 2027

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TRAIN. FLY. BELONG.

FPV SHOULD NOTBE THIS HARD TO START.

FPV is extraordinary once you can actually fly. Getting to that point is the part nobody has fixed.

WHY FPV

Put on the goggles and you stop watching an aircraft fly — you fly it, through it, at the speed it moves. It is one of the closest things to real flight a person can do without leaving the ground. Nothing about that experience is the hard part.

The view from an FPV aircraft: low and fast over open grass toward a line of WYNGS race gates at sunset, the ground streaking past at speed.

THE PROBLEM WE ACTUALLY SET OUT TO FIX

Historically, becoming an FPV pilot meant piecing it together yourself: disconnected videos, scattered forums, guesswork about equipment, hours alone in a simulator with no feedback, and expensive trial and error before you ever flew something real. Talented people quit before they got to the part that makes FPV worth it.

Richard Berkut, founder of WYNGS, standing on the flight line at sunset in a black WYNGS hoodie, pilots flying behind him through a line of yellow race gates.

WHY WYNGS EXISTS

I found FPV five years ago and fell in love with it immediately. Not with the hardware — with the feeling. In goggles you stop watching a drone and start being the bird. That freedom is addictive in a way nothing else I have tried comes close to.

Then came the learning curve. It took me around five hundred hours to feel genuinely confident, most of them alone, most of them working out what I should have been told on day one. And I am still not a freestyle pro. I am not a racer. I am someone who got there the long way round.

The people in FPV are some of the best I have met. They are also, lovingly, geeks — and I say that as one of them. What the community has never had is a simple way in. No structure, no order to learn things in, nobody to tell you that the thing you are struggling with is normal and here is the drill that fixes it.

So I built the thing I needed. WYNGS is the five hundred hours, organised — a path anyone can follow, with instructors, equipment and people to fly with, so the next person gets to the good part far sooner than I did.

Richard BerkutFounder
  1. 01

    WHY AN ACADEMY, NOT A TUTORIAL LIBRARY

    Videos can show you FPV. They cannot correct your throttle input in real time, tell you when your equipment is wrong for your level, or put you in the air safely for the first time. An academy can. Structure, instructors and real progression are the difference between watching FPV and becoming a pilot.

  2. 02

    TRAINING PHILOSOPHY

    Competency before speed. Every pilot moves from simulator to indoor flight to outdoor flight only when they are actually ready for the next stage — not on a fixed calendar, and never by skipping the fundamentals to get to the exciting part sooner.

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    COMMUNITY PHILOSOPHY

    Nobody keeps flying alone for long. The people who stick with FPV are the ones who found other people to fly with — so the community is treated as core to the academy, not an add-on after training ends.

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    SAFETY & RESPONSIBILITY

    FPV is practiced safely when pilots are properly trained, equipment is appropriate for their level, and flights happen in controlled or legal environments. Safety is part of the curriculum from the first session, not a waiver signed on the way in.

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    WHERE THIS IS HEADED

    WYNGS will start as one academy in one city. The system — simulator to real flight, instructors, equipment, community and a pilot record that follows you — is being built to grow beyond Calgary once it proves itself there first.

CALGARY — THE FIRST LOCATION

WYNGS's first academy is opening in Calgary, early 2027. It's where the system will get built, tested and proven before it goes anywhere else.

THIS STARTED AS A PROBLEM WE COULDN'T FIND A FIX FOR.

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