Kingy's advice is sound.
I also have another "check" that really has saved my bacon and the KLM Captain owner's embarrassment and insurance excess.
If it is a first for an aircraft, then I insist on at least a minute at full power before I enter the runway, for the a/c types that I normaly fly this means having bodies draping themselves over the tail.
This little test diagnosed a failed mech fuel pump - had I not done this it would all have gone desparately quiet at about 60'!!
I've test flown 4 home built Pitts', have flown tKF's VP1 and have played with an EAA biplane thing which was frightfully awful.
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Stik