four things, casey (if you'll still listen to me. haha) 2 important:

1. land it hot!!! lol. seriously... even if you have done the stall test and know how slow it will fly... land it much faster than you need to. if that plane stalls on landing, you're in for a nice long rebuild.

2. as bubba mentioned, have someone there to help you with trims. you might be too nervous to take your hands away from the control.

and two optional:

3. a little elevator trimmed in. for all my planes (and anyone elses that wants me to maiden for them), i maiden with a little elevator so that no matter what, you know you are climbing. of course not to the point you might stall but at least you know it won't dive. i have had planes dive and roll right and that is a terrible thing to have to trim since you can't get your hand away from one of the sticks. if you fly mode 2 i guess this isn't as important since you can release your hand from the left stick quite comfortably since it is only throttle and rudder.

4. learn to use the rudder. flying the trainer and the T-34 may spoil you in the sense that rudder isn't mandatory. with warbirds and scale planes, using the rudder is important. true you can bank and yank (or is it yank and bank?) it at speed but it's slow flying characteristics generally require you to use some rudder for maintaining speed. it is particularly good to do so when approaching for landing when you are slowest in flight.

i also forgot.. it's your first tail dragger! do some taxiing around first. learn to keep the elevator up when taxiing so you're not nosing into the ground too often. also, dial in a lot of rudder. unlike trikes, the tail gear doesn't provide very solid steering. i don't recommend that you gun the motor from the get go. the torque will pull the plane left so if you gun it, it will veer left and you won't have any control. you need to get the plane to speed holding some limited up elevator in the beginning and as the speed increases be prepared to release some elevator so you don't take off and some right rudder so it doesn't veer off course. don't try to pull up too soon. you need speed so that you don't stall. unlike trainers and well trainers (T34) you just can't pull back expecting it will dart off into the sky. you need to gain some speed before you take off.

for maidens on taildraggers i generally have aileron and elevator on low rates, rudder on high rates. fly into the wind as much as possible even if that means taking a slightly diagonal path. take off well past what is "safe" and land it hot. i mean go for go around if you have to. but i don't try to land it in 20 ft per se on the first flight. oh yeah... an no retracts on the first run. that good looking stuff can come later :-)

okay, that was a lot more than a few points.