Castoring was indeed a learning curve but once you got the hang of it then all was well. I was in a tight spot one day and couldn't taxy out because the nose-wheel had been left at 90 degrees the night before. From memory, the POH stated this wasn't recommended.
A friendly local LAME came over, placed his cupped hand underneath the nose cone and with no apparent effort tilted the entire aircraft rearwards and kicked the nosewheel straight. This was to be my first lesson (had many more later) about just how delicate the CoG was on the BN3.
I may be historically wrong, but I recall a New Zealand gentleman went to the effort to produce a booklet with a simple diagramatic display that showed how the BN3 should be loaded, given various pax and cargo numbers. It was a godsend to those of us flying the Tri back then.
Last edited by Rabbit 1; 23rd Nov 2009 at 07:13.