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Of course it does. They'll continue to move horizontally so the longer they are in the air the further they will go horizontally. With the ground falling away it allows them to spend longer in the air, therefore they travel further horizontally.
The take off ramp on a ski jump is usually at or below horizontal (rather than angled up) so apart from the little jump they do with their legs/body at the end of the ramp they cut through the horizontal plane from the end of the ramp almost straight away.
Random google image:
P.S. Fuck that. I'll point myself down pretty much any slope on skis but I like to be able to do turns (if I can't get my edges in). The snow slope at the bottom looks fine though.