Originally Posted by
The Ancient Geek
In still air the parachute will be directly above the aircraft and both will go straight down.
In a wind the parachute will above and ahead of the aircraft and both will decend at an angle. There are 2 vectors, horizontal and vertical, the aircraft will take longer to reach the ground, simple trigonometry.
This is completely wrong. The load on the parachute falls at the same rate regardless of any wind. It is a pity that (wrong) opinions are dressed up as statements of fact - when they are not. Dressing it up with irrelevant maths, vectors, trigonometry etc doesn't make it right.