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10th December 2002 | 03:40
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Also you get a couple of extra knots of TAS (and therefore groundspeed in nil wind conditions) for every thousand feet of climb at a given IAS, so you would expect an increase in GPS calculated groundspeed in a climb, and the reverse in a descent.
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