DT 11 - Cascade
Compulsory figure from the series Dual-line team figures.
Reference diagram
Official document: ISK Compulsories Book v3.0, p. 62
Official description
Judges will particularly consider
- Speed control
- Position within the precision grid
- Spacing
- Parallel lines
Explanation
Smooth transitions from horizontal to vertical and again to horizontal. All kites when flying down should be on the same diagonal line just before the first kite flies out and after the last kite has already flown into the down flight.
Our reading
What follows is our reading of those documents, not an official document: the diagram and the description above are what counts.
Animation
Sequence
Doubts & discrepancies
Uncertain readings of the diagram or the official text, and disagreements between sources, to be validated. The animation follows the reading we chose, which is not an official interpretation.
No specific doubt or discrepancy about this figure.
Common to the whole family of figures
- douteOverall speed: we chose a constant speed of 15 units per second (about 4.4 m/s with 37 m lines), without any flight measurement. The ISK requires a constant speed (§II.V) without giving a value.
- douteKite size: our assumption is a wing 2.30 m wide, i.e. 8 grid units (1 unit ≈ 0.29 m with 37 m lines), with the proportions of the Hadzicki wing drawn in kite-physics; the dual-line wing has the same span. For the reference competition, we only found the scale of the grid (ISK §II.C: about 0.3 m for 38 m), not a kite size. At this size, the wings of a team overlap at times (MT 01, 02, 06 and 09). Lead: a smaller kite.
Keep going
In the series Dual-line team figures
- DT 07 - Sorted Rectangle
- DT 08 - The Basket
- DT 10 - Team Diamonds
- DT 11 - Cascade — you are here
- DT 12 - Loops and Vertical Threads
- DT 16 - Team Square Cuts
- DT 17 - Boomerang
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