RE: Engine stalls when plane is climbing
If your low-end mixture is fuel rich, you will have fuel accumulating in the cylinder at low speeds.
When you kick to full power (WOT), the engine will need time to burn all that extra fuel before it picks up, and it can even stop.
I believe the best is to always have a relatively lean mixture at idle, and then you set your high-end mixture to optimize your high rpm performance...