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Old 1st Jun 2013, 18:05
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awblain
 
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You land at an airspeed V. If you have a tailwind deltaV, the energy you need to lose to stop depends on (V+deltaV)-squared. The fractional change in energy to lose scales approximately as (2 x deltaV / V), so it's not quite as nasty as a deltaV-squared dependence.
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