She does climb like a homesick angel. That comes in handy when flying in hot and high conditions off short rough strips as we have in some places here. Our home airfield is at 2000ft and one up only 30m or so is needed of the 2600m of tar available. She has a few mods, plastic inserts under the fabric on the leading edge, 100l tank, balloon tires on the main and some nifty instruments.
I do check the wing attachment points very carefully.