As usual, if you just stab that throttle stick to full, you will have a handful on takeoff, I never got that chance to do that here in CT. Our runways are almost all grass, and unless you get there the day they mow the grass, power management is a must. I did splay the gear a few degrees and set my tailwheel as far back as possible when building it. But I never noticed any bad ground handling issues due to feeding in power smoothly and letting it build ground speed before pulling back smoothly on the stick. It's a scale plane, why would you want to yank it into the sky like a 3D machine anyway? I powered mine with a Magnum 45 abc and it flew fine, not unlimited vertical, but plenty to do anything it was asked of to do.