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.
No it won't. The vertical component is the same. However the wind ADDS a horizonal component.