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\"Mancos
Mancos students were able to experience Classic Air Medical\u2019s landing at their campus on Aug. 21 (Tiffany Aspromonte\/Courtesy photo)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n

Southwest Health System\u2019s Classic Air Medical helicopter landed on Mancos school district\u2019s practice field on Aug. 21, allowing students to hear from the pilots about their career.<\/p>\n

Excited students crowded the field at 10 a.m. for the landing and then got up close with the helicopter and its pilots to learn about how the helicopter works and the job that pilots do.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a great opportunity for our students to see potential career paths up close,\u201d said Tiffany Aspromonte, academic adviser and registrar.<\/p>\n

One student, Mitchell, said the event motivated him to keep working toward a pilot\u2019s license.<\/p>\n

\u201cSeeing that helicopter land was really cool because it inspired me to keep working really hard to get my pilot\u2019s license, which I\u2019m currently doing at the moment, just to help people in need and just be there for people,\u201d Mitchell said.<\/p>\n

Another student named Kyler said he hoped to learn more about the career.<\/p>\n

\u201cI got to learn what all they do, how they save lives. \u2026 It was a very cool experience, and it\u2019s definitely something I\u2019d like to learn more about. It was very cool,\u201d Kyler said.<\/p>\n

\"The
The event was hosted to allow students to learn more about another career. (Tiffany Aspromonte\/Courtesy photo)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

Eight grader Paxton noted that he was impressed with the pilot\u2019s skill in landing on the field.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought the helicopter was really cool because you could kind of see how well they pilots and land it, so that\u2019s pretty impressive, their training, and it\u2019s just a really cool machine to see work,\u201d Paxton said.<\/p>\n

Two fourth grade students, Sophia and Jason, were able to weigh in on what they thought of the landing as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought the helicopter landing was really fun because we got to look at all the different parts of it and we got to see all the different people, and they opened the doors for us so we could see inside,\u201d Sophia said. \u201cIt was an opportunity to get up close to it and not just see it in the air.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI got to walk around it, and I got to see the pilot,\u201d Jason said.<\/p>\n

Classic Air Medical has been serving<\/a> New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, Utah, Wyoming and Idaho as a medical air ambulance for over 30 years. The company is headquartered in Woods Cross, Utah, and was established in 1988 to provide air medical evacuation in the Lake Powell area. It has since expanded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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