The best way I found to counteract that tendency was to hold full
DOWN elevator while doing your takeoff run. This holds the nose
wheel on the ground.

Build up a little speed and then quickly pop in some up elevator.
The plane should come off the ground quickly and with a lot
less tendency to dart to the right.

It seems that the nose wheel lifts before the plane is quite ready
to fly. So keep it on the ground until it builds up a little more speed.

And on the bouncy landings...yes it IS possible to make smooth
landings with this plane under ideal conditions. But if you are
fighting a gusty cross wind and landing on rough grass fields
your nice smooth landings will be far and few between.

A larger set of wheels seems to help. We used some of the Dubro
low bounce 3 inchers. Help quite a bit.

In the air the plane is very good. It took my last student all the way
up through basic aerobatics.

Mike Hammer