A cold but cracking day. After a cloudless sunrise, it was thermic from the first launch with the cloudbase rising to over 4,000'. With the fresh easterly we were operating off the west end of the cross runway, but with launches in excess of 1,400' we didn't have much to complain about. Tony Chapman disappeared in the direction of Alcester, ending up at Shennington and Doug did Lasham - Devises. In the ASH, Ken entertained the launch point with a demonstration of low-level scratching. Otherwise, the PW6 and K13s were kept busy with soaring flights, the pilots only being forced down by the cold.