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Old 27th Aug 2014, 16:43
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Your glide ratio is the ratio of ground speed vs decent rate.

Your decent rate stays the same regardless of any head or tail wind, however now you have a 20mph tailwind your ground speed has increased from 40mph to 60mph.

Since your ground speed has increased by 50% but your decent rate has stayed the same, you glide ratio has increased by 50% from 20:1 to 30:1.
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