ORIGINAL: brett65
I will be spending the day at a warbird fly in in two weeks, and the club has a grass runway. I've landed off our runway on grass before, but not taken off. I know there will be more resistance to rolling on takeoff, and need to know of any other things to anticipate. Will a taildragger nose over if you hold some up elevator? I don't anticipate many problems, but I wanted to go in with some advice at least.
Im pretty sure they will have the grass cut nicely... Keep some elevator back pressure, ease up the throttle and youll be fine..... plus if you happen to scrape a wing tip , you wont get nothing more than a scuff off a nice grass runway, vs road rash on asphalt